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...Consumer Reports survey shows that 78% of people polled are unlikely to buy a car from a bankrupt car company. Nearly two-thirds said they were highly unlikely to make a purchase under those circumstances. Another recent study by market research firm CNW polled consumers who plan to buy a new car within six months. More than 8o% of the respondents said they would switch brands if the vehicle they wanted came from an automaker that went bankrupt. A third survey, this one from Rasmussen, showed that 51% of consumer said they would not buy a car from a manufacturer...
...having remarried, Drake began trying for baby No. 3. She tried for three years, with no luck. At 30, she was diagnosed with premature menopause and, in an odd twist of fate, had to undergo fertility treatment to have her third child. It struck her as particularly curious, since her identical twin sister never had any fertility problems. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...sociologist Rosemary Hopcroft of UNC Charlotte and evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa, who now teaches at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In a 2006 article in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, Hopcroft showed that after you account for children born to mistresses and second (or third, or fourth...) trophy wives, rich men do have more kids than poor men. And Kanazawa, in a 2003 Sociological Quarterly paper, noted that even if wealthy men don't have more kids within marriage, they have more sex partners total - and more sex with each partner - than poor...
However, commanding an intimidating presence at the plate is no new feat for the San Francisco, Calif. native. Starting in the third grade and playing year-round in the Golden State ever since has given Shaw plenty of preparation for her first season in the Ivy League...
...There is a tremendous sense of a new opportunity for progressives to make a fresh case for governing," says Will Marshall, a Third Way veteran and head of the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington. "But despite this wonderful sense of possibility, I think people are sobered by the magnitude of the challenges...