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...Murray said. Asians, many of them professional and small businessowners with roots in India and Vietnam, are becoming an important force in local elections, particularly in Fort Bend County, the heart of the district where the sugar fields are giving way to suburban growth. Asian political participation has grown tenfold since 2006, and some 30,000 cast ballots in this year's Democratic primary, evidence of the appeal Barack Obama has among the district's ethnic minorities. Asians make up about 5% of the voting age population in the district, Hispanics 18% and African-Americans 10%. "The district has moved...
Although the North Koreans’ musical instruments were in poor condition, Koh said that the musicians exceeded his expectations tenfold...
...video, the shots cut between large groups of tribe members—with face paint, wooden weapons, and instruments—and Kanye, looking miserable in his white apartment. From there, it goes just about nowhere. The number of painted primitive dancers and drummers seems to increase tenfold. Two glowing alien women appear toward the end and begin to gyrate against each other. The final shot shows Kanye attempting to sleep on that white couch, and the elapsed four minutes feel like 30. So what’s the hidden message here? Is Ye planning his own misogynistic murder spree...
...adults. CDC epidemiologist David Freedman evaluated 30-plus years of data and found that of the children who technically qualified as obese, two-thirds grew up to be very obese adults. "Even down to the youngest ages that I've worked with, age 5, overweight kids have maybe a tenfold increased risk of becoming obese adults," Freedman says...
...Bradford DeLong ’82, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, said that the number of top high school students has increased “between five and tenfold over the past half century,” and that, in response, the California system has “scaled itself up roughly from 4,000 to 40,000 undergraduates a year...