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...students surveyed, 0.8 percent said they had experienced involuntary sexual penetration--rape--in the past academic year. Zero percent of males and 1 percent of females answered yes to this question...
...selected "Hello, I'm Al Gore" for the VP's sample and I hoped that this was not a gross exaggeration. I used one of the governor's trademark "I appreciate that" lines as his ground zero and hoped he was being sincere...
...buying. By noon, JP Morgan was only down a handful. IBM, well, IBM pretty much stayed down, but was a handful off its lows. And before you knew it, the Dow had stabilized, wavering between 100 and 150 in the red, and then spent the afternoon chugging back toward zero, re-clearing 10,000 along the way. (No milestone celebrations this time, though, and toward the end of the day's trading it was heading back down again...
...polls put one candidate in front of another the vote power in an electoral system begins to increase until it overtakes the popular vote system. But interestingly, as the number of voters increases, the "lopsidedness" needed to make the electoral system better for the average voter decreases to basically zero. In other words, as the number of voters increases, it takes a smaller and smaller imbalance in the polls for voter power to be increased by an electoral college-type system. With voters numbering in the millions, it is nearly always desirable for the idealized self-interested voter to vote...
...Gore, there's zero tolerance for anything but the literal truth. Reagan, the President who told the tallest of tales, won his debate by employing the famous line "There you go again" against Jimmy Carter, who told the fewest tales. Reagan claimed he took pictures of Nazi death camps and was happy like other vets after the war to be able to finally "rest up, make love to my wife...," though he never left the country. Biographers say he got away with it because he was so emotionally accessible. But he was that way only with Nancy (or Mommy...