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...youth in the election,” she said. “[Obama] revolutionized how political campaigns are run especially through his use of the Internet.” H-VOTE, an Institute of Politics program, helped students register in their home states and obtain absentee ballots. Two-thousand seventeen students registered or pledged to vote through H-VOTE this year, four times the number in 2004. Levine said that while turnout among youth voters was high, many people expected the number to be even higher. “It wasn’t higher because conservative youth were...
...news from China in recent weeks has been dire. Strikes and protests - some of them violent and involving as many as ten thousand people - are reported almost daily. Millions of workers are being thrown out of their jobs, and economic indicators seem to presage more gloom, with electricity production for industry falling 4% in October, the first time it has declined in a decade. Even the country's seemingly insatiable thirst for oil to fuel its decades' long boom seems to be fading: China's national oil company said late in November that demand had declined "sharply" in recent months...
...just one of a multitude of ridiculous walking bets: "Peter Radford, in his book The Celebrated Captain Barclay, recounts some gloriously eccentric pedestrian contests. One was devised by 'an unnamed Duke' who wagered a thousand guineas that he could find a man to walk the ten miles from Piccadilly to Hounslow within three hours, taking three steps forward and one step back...
Four hundred fifty thousand people will die this year of coronary heart disease, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and half of them will be healthy individuals who do not have high levels of cholesterol...
...With its mix of whimsy and humor, the school has become a surprise hit in a land of supposedly reticent people. On its opening day, a thousand visitors passed through, some sprawling on a cheetah-print chaise longue for impromptu therapy sessions, others buying books shelved in categories like "For Those Who Have Fallen Profoundly and Unexpectedly in Love" and "For Those Whose Jobs Are Too Small For Their Spirit." It sounds hopelessly self-indulgent, but for anyone confronting existential angst, a dose of high-brow self-help can go a long way. "We start from the perspective that most...