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...research on another type of female plastic surgery is any indication, that post-op happiness may be short-lived. A 2007 study published in the Annals of Plastic Surgery found that 10 years after women get cosmetic breast implants, a disturbing trend emerges: they are nearly three times as likely to commit suicide as other women. With the even more intimate genital surgery, says Tiefer, the potential long-term consequences are troubling. "[Women] are projecting their anxiety about sexuality onto this one thing: 'If only I could get this fixed, then I would feel confident to be sexual,' " she says...
Harvard may be used to bucking national trends, but in math and computer science, its relationship to the national gender gap is more complicated.Nationally, the number of incoming female undergraduates choosing computer science as a major declined 70 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. The trend is part of a quarter-century decline in female computer-science majors detailed in a New York Times article on Saturday.At Harvard, the story looks different, but not necessarily any better. Over the past year, female enrollment in Computer Science 50 has jumped 60 percent...
...market been weaker than the European markets lately? The sales decline here [in the U.S.] has been stronger than in most European countries, but the downward trend in Europe is worsening. What we are seeing here is coming to Europe as well. It will last at least 12 months. It will get worse before it gets better. A lot of jobs are going to be lost in the next few months. People are scared and that will keep them from shopping. We haven't reached the worst...
...criticized for claiming that people from small towns, “get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.” Many understood Obama’s suggestion as embracing the secularist proposition that religion is a trend of past centuries, comparable to racism in that it is something to be outgrown. This belief’s increasing prevalence is reflected in the 28 percent of American adults today who have left the faith in which they were raised. And when Sarah Palin says...
...trend of the latest voting count continues - Coleman initially led by 725 votes, but that dwindled to just over 200 votes - Franken may be in the more favorable position. A recently completed Dartmouth study of the race argued that the roughly 34,000 residual votes - defined as undervotes, in which a ballot has not been fully filled out; or overvotes, in which more choices than were allowed were selected - could decide the election for Franken, because those votes are historically cast primarily by left-leaning voters. "With the voter who tends to pull the lever for Democrats, there...