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...According to the U.S. Census Bureau's latest tally, non-Hispanic whites' share of California's population dropped to 49.9 percent some time last year. Over the past decade, their number has also declined, while immigration and good old-fashioned reproduction has boosted the number of Latinos by 35 percent in the past decade to 10.5 million and the Asian and Pacific Islander population by 36 percent to some 5 million. Blacks - who in California are a minority even among minorities - were nearly level at 2.2 million...
...rest of America doesn't yet look like California. But it will. According to Census projections, Latinos will surpass non-Hispanic blacks as the majority minority as soon as 2002, at which point they'll make up 12.4 percent of the population. Fifty years from now, Latinos will make up nearly a quarter of the population, while blacks will have increased only to a 13.2 share...
More and more women are facing the same issues. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 32% of all births today are to unmarried women, up from just 5.3% in 1960. While teenage pregnancies have declined, there has been a dramatic upsurge among college-educated career women like Marianne. Some got pregnant by accident. But many more have made the conscious decision to have a child on their own because they haven't found Mr. Adequate, let alone Mr. Right. "Now almost everyone seems to know someone firsthand or secondhand who has done it," says Jane Mattes, founder of Single Mothers...
...more than enough of the right kinds of food, keeping in mind that grocery prices rise in accordance with the local census of private jets and celebrity yachts and that everyone eats twice as much on vacation as at home...
...winner who coined the words software and bit (for binary digit); of a heart attack; in New Brunswick, N.J. His work extended beyond mathematics to environmental and social issues. He warned that aerosol cans harmed the ozone layer, criticized Alfred Kinsey's sex-research methods and advised that the Census be adjusted to count more inner-city dwellers...