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Demographer William H. Frey of the Brookings Institute projects that whites may account for only 5% of Detroit's population by 2020. If those trends persist, it is unlikely that Detroit will ever again elect a white person to a major citywide post. But Cockrel, 63, may try to buck that trend. She is now studying whether she has the kind of crossover appeal to win a congressional seat out of Detroit...
...were imposed in 2009 in the U.S. than in any year since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. In the 1980s and '90s, states consistently sent more than 300 prisoners per year to death row. The total this year, according to DPIC, will be 106. This continues a steady trend going back most of the decade, and it extends even to Texas, the leading death-penalty state, where juries reliably sent 30 or more convicted killers per year to death row. That number fell to single digits this year: nine. (See why Texas may be changing its mind about...
...tuck trend has been a boon to some medical-supply companies. In the third quarter, Allergan Inc., which sells breast implants, Botox and other wrinkle-fighting products, said higher-than-expected Botox sales helped the company post an 8% earnings increase and exceed Wall Street's expectations. The company, predictably, opposes...
...recent Swiss referendum vote to ban the building of minarets seemed to confirm a trend: Europeans are becoming increasingly strident in their attempts to "protect" their culture against Islam. However, a newly published report by the Open Society Institute (OSI), a think tank set up by billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros, details the complex relationship between Muslims and non-Muslim Europeans and reveals that the suspicion is mutual. Muslims believe they are being shut out of European society...
...search for younger customers not only drives the multiple activities, the super spas and the entertainment; it's also driving the trend to shorter hops. "Younger people aren't going to sail for 24 days down the coast of South America," says Yesawich. "They don't have that vacation time." That's one reason Oasis is based in the Caribbean and set up for seven-day voyages...