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...Census Bureau released a report showing that out-of-wedlock births are skyrocketing. In 1993 about 6.3 million children in the U.S., or more than a quarter of those under 18, lived with a single parent who had never married -- in contrast to 3.4 million...
...according to a recent study by Linda Chavez, Latinos seem to be climbing and assimilating just the same. "Hispanics are succeeding as most other groups before them did," writes Chavez. "In fact, a careful examination of the voluminous data on the Hispanic population gathered by the Census Bureau and other federal agencies shows that, as a group, Hispanics have made progress in this society and that most of them have moved into the social and economic mainstream...
This is happening again with Asians and Latinos. A vast majority of Asian and Latino-American families now live among whites. Both groups are fast assimilating into the socio-economic mainstream. According to the Census Bureau, now almost a quarter of all Asian-Americans' marriages are marriages with whites (the rate is 65 percent for Japanese-Americans). In California, already half of all Mexican-Americans choose non-Hispanic spouses (the rate is 13 percent for Latinos as a whole). The Black intermarriage rate, by contrast, stands at only 2.2 percent...
Another network-related project which combinesdisciplines is currently being pursued by aprofessor of government, Gary King, and McKayProfessor of Electrical Engineering and ComputerScience H.T. Kung. The aim is to allow socialscientists easier access to data like publishedpolls, U.S. census figures and election results...
...winter, Russian officials estimated that between 80 and 96 tigers were killed, and the poaching continues unabated this year. A new study of tiger-population dynamics led by biologist John Kenney of the University of Minnesota suggests that even moderate poaching makes extinction a virtual certainty once a tiger census drops below 120. Unless the Russian government controls hunting, the Amur tiger will cross that threshold within two or three years...