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...believe the Bible holds the answers to "all or most of life's basic questions," but pollster George Gallup has dubbed us "a nation of biblical illiterates." Only half of U.S. adults know the title of even one Gospel. Most can't name the Bible's first book. The trend extends even to Evangelicals, only 44% of whose teens could identify a particular quote as coming from the Sermon on the Mount...
...coordinator, Lynda L. Bolduc-Hicks. CHA also employs Kales as its director of employee health and industrial medicine. “I think the program’s been taken seriously—we’ve always been known to eat big meals, but I think the trend may be getting away from that,” said Captain Stephen G. Persson of the City of Cambridge Fire Department. “Now we’re trying to eat more healthy and exercise and do the things we’re supposed to be doing...
...don’t think it means that it is getting harder to get tenure at Harvard and I don’t think it is representative of any larger trend or event,” Brinton said. “We put his name forward and we don’t do that unless we think the person has a very strong chance, but we know it is not a guaranteed thing...
...number of students attending Cambridge schools has been on a steady decline in recent years, a trend that City Councillor Craig A. Kelley said schools need to work harder to address through marketing efforts...
...number of transfer students at Harvard has climbed since 2004, following a five-year downward trend with no transfers accepted in the spring...