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...Proportion of Chinese who describe themselves as middle class, according to a nationwide survey...
...consider ourselves Russian," Alexei says. "We belong to the white race!" According to Vyacheslav Sukhachev, professor of sociology at the University of St. Petersburg and an expert on Nazism, this kind of racism is seeping into society at large. Polls back this assertion up. In a survey by the All-Russian Center for Public Opinion Studies (VTSIOM) published last month, 61% of those polled approved of the "Russia for Russians" slogan, almost twice the 31% level recorded in 1998. According to a March study by the Moscow-based Ekspertiza Foundation, an independent think tank, 60% of those surveyed wanted...
...cannot date the Jaru myth, but we can date the discovery of its factual underpinning very precisely, to 1947. Geologist Frank Reeves, then working for the Vacuum Oil Company, was conducting an aerial survey of the Canning Basin when he spotted the crater near Wolfe Creek. "He thought it was volcanic at first," says his daughter Peggy Reeves Sanday, "but was later able to confirm it was of meteoric origin." Sanday, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, grew up with stories about the crater but didn't visit it until 1999, when she learned tribal tales that were...
...sure, nobody, including the Children's Defense Fund, denies that the thrust of the survey is welcome news. It's far too early to say that no child is being left behind, but it seems that more and more are being brought along...
...giving spirit isn't based on just pragmatism. A generational change in Europe's wealthy families has contributed to new charitable attitudes. As the entrepreneurs who rebuilt postwar Europe retire, many want to give back some of the bounty they have enjoyed. In a survey of 1,600 of the newest German foundations, the Bertelsmann Foundation found that more than 60% of them were set up by people over 60 years old--42% of whom don't have children...