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...expectations can result in disappointment of course, and there's sure to be some of that next year no matter who wins the White House. In the euphoria of fresh elections it's easy to forget that U.S. Presidents pursue their own agenda first. Depending on who wins, the next Administration could press on with globally unpopular policies such as staying in Iraq, or throw up new trade barriers that would hurt the rest of the world. But for the millions who look to the U.S. as a model, a place of hope and transformation, the world seems a better...
...year college students - plunged 35% between 1990 and 2007, from 2 million to 1.3 million, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Simply put, there are fewer and fewer Japanese students to support a system that was built for heavier class loads. As a result, Japan's famously Darwinian educational environment, in which high school students crammed day and night so they could beat their peers on standardized tests and get into good universities, is fading. Instead, even average students now breeze into colleges that are becoming less selective about who fills their hallowed lecture...
...Joel Segal, a staffer assisting Congressman John Conyers on a universal-health-care bill. "I don't think it's a coincidence that all the Democratic candidates--presidential and congressional--are pushing universal health care as a front-burner issue." A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that as a result of Sicko, 43% of people were more likely to report that they think health-care reform is needed. However, the effect was not universal--43% of liberals had a positive view of the film, compared with just 9% of conservatives...
...conservatives to say they prefer documentaries, what talk radio is for conservatives: a way of rallying the base. Many follow the pattern of the $370 million--grossing 2004 juggernaut The Passion of the Christ. Fewer than 0.1% of those who saw the film said they became Christians as a result, according to a Barna Group poll, but 18% of the audience said some aspect of their religious behavior changed--mostly praying and attending church more...
Indeed, the evidence at the scene testified to that sentiment—the event’s venue had only paper recycling bins, and as a result, over 100 unused plastic cups from the reception preceding the conference were thrown away...