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...football, it’s because home is an advantage. Home is where the 12th man lives, five or six Saturdays and eight Sundays a year. Visitors are greeted rudely and noisily. The crowd applauds when you drop a pass or get helmeted in the ribs. It starts yelling whenever the guest tries to speak and the officials are sometimes swayed in favor of the hosts by the beseeching masses...
...found in small amounts in red wine and can be found elsewhere or created in the laboratory. “Red wine increases life expectancy: study,” said Canada’s National Post yesterday, while the Times of London told its readers, “A drop of wine can prolong an active life.” Sinclair did not identify any particular newspapers’ coverage as inaccurate. He added that a person would have to drink over 100 glasses of red wine per day to take in the same amount of resveratrol as the mice...
...country—followed by China at 20 percent. The large gain for China is “particularly noteworthy” because enrollment fell 8 percent in 2004, and only increased 3 percent in 2005, according to the report. Harvard was one of the schools that saw a drop in applications from Chinese students after Sept. 11, prompting Summers to write a letter to then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge ’67 protesting tightened visa policies. The drop in foreign applications to graduate programs at Harvard posed “a very serious problem for our students...
...said Jeanne Shaheen, the director of the IOP and a former governor of New Hampshire. While acknowledging that in the past, youth turnout has been significantly lower than what is presently indicated by the poll, Shaheen said that “even if there is some drop-off, there will still be an increase in what we have seen young people do in past midterm elections.” According to the poll President Bush was rated an average grade of “C-” on seven key issues: terrorism, education, environment, economy, health care, immigration...
...just from attending youth-fellowship activities but also from practicing their faith at all. In a national survey recently released by Barna Group, a polling firm that tracks religious trends, only 33% of kids 13 to 18 responded that they attend a youth-group event regularly--a 3% drop since 1998. And while nearly 75% pray each week, that number has declined...