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...main draw at Uno’s Sunday night throwdown, according to many participants, is host Al S. Beuscher, who speaks in a voice stolen from the “Price is Right.” The Bee Gees-loving trivia master says of himself, “People tend to really like me.” Not everyone agrees: Beuscher was “mugged once after trivia because some guy was mad about a question.” Of course, with a $50 Uno’s gift certificate on the line, it’s no surprise...
...hurt and we had a very rapid response from HUPD,” he said. “We haven’t, in my tenure, had something like this happen; we’ve always been concerned that [it would]. Students across campus leave their doors unlocked and...tend to forget that they are in an urban environment here...
...supposed rise of inequality in contemporary America is overblown. As argued by Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University, much of it can be attributed to demographic trends. Simply put, as populations get older, they tend to display higher variation in income. Most of the rest of the increase in inequality is a result of increasing returns on education and skill. In other words, to raise wages, activists would be better off with neo-Luddite machine sabotage than with unions, because structural factors in the economy—globalization and technological change—are responsible for unequal...
...ethnicity or religion in France, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and Spain, mainly on the grounds that identifying people by their race or faith is, in itself, a form of discrimination. But a move to make all people equal risks ignoring their inherent differences. For instance, studies show that ethnic minorities tend to suffer higher rates of diabetes than their white counterparts. So without knowing exactly who makes up the population, how is it possible to treat diabetes effectively? And a detailed ethnic breakdown isn't just essential to understanding what citizens need now - it's also the only way to predict...
Their conclusions tend to be quite similar. Public perceptions of the impact of the euro were skewed, they argue, because people noticed the rise in the cost of everyday items such as coffee and vegetables more than they noticed the declining costs of telephone calls, refrigerators and other less frequently purchased items. That in turn confirmed pre-euro anxieties that the new currency could be inflationary. Extensive media coverage of price rises didn't help. Moreover, some people may have simply not related their spending to what they were earning, and so made mistakes...