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...reason for this heightened security? The authorities were guarding against cheating in high-stakes university entrance exams. When the testing concluded on July 16, a total of 1.8 million would-be scholars had taken the exams in the hope of landing one of just 300,000 places in colleges nationwide. Such pressure motivates students to seek any edge. Hanoi's 940-year-old Temple of Literature was jammed with exam takers burning incense for good luck. Some candidates even ate "lucky meals" of green beans - the Vietnamese word for bean is the same as that for "pass...
...surged to $1.49 trillion in 2006--a level not seen since the tech boom in the late 1990s, when annual activity topped the $1.5 trillion mark just prior to the dotcom crash, according to market-research group Dealogic. And it's only halftime. Through early July, M&A volume totaled $1.17 trillion, up from $761.5 billion during the same period a year ago, the first time that M&A volume has topped the $1 trillion mark in the first six months of a year. Private equity accounted for about 35% of total M&A activity...
...death of 34 children is morally reprehensible, but if we are going to turn tragedy into a data point, we may as well use a slightly - though only slightly - more rational denominator. In other words, 34 out of how many? We could compare those 34 deaths to the total number of children in Chicago, but since most shooting victims are teenagers, it might be more relevant to consider the total number of public high-school students (109,982). By that measure, about .03% (or three out of every 10,000) of Chicago high-school students were killed last school year...
...made a similar point, comparing the annual toll of nationwide gun deaths to Iraq casualty figures, and wondering what happened to the outrage. Right-wing bloggers have used the same data to make a different point: that the media is hyping the number of casualties in Iraq, since the total is still small compared to, say, the number of annual homicide victims...
...killed during the 2006-07 school year. That?s fewer, in absolute terms, than the number of kids killed in Chicago. But Obama was wrong on the relative victimization of both populations: the number of dead soldiers represents about .3% (or 30 out of every 10,000) of the total number of active and reserve troops from Illinois currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Defense Department statistics...