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Americans tend to have little sympathy or support for the reasons most women seek an abortion. In a 2004 study, the Guttmacher Institute--an abortion-rights advocacy group whose data are considered the best on the issue and are cited by both sides in the debate--found that the two most common reasons given by women are that "having a baby would dramatically change my life" and "I can't afford a baby now." Both were mentioned by more than 70% of the 1,160 women surveyed. And yet numerous polls have found that most Americans say they think abortion...
...Although the average age at marriage in the U.S. is 25 for women and 27 for men, educated people tend to marry even later, according to Professor of Sociology Martin K. Whyte. That makes the few members of the Class of 2006 who are already engaged a distinct minority—especially at a school like Harvard, where marriage is hardly the first priority for most graduating seniors...
...commentators and elected officials from both sides of the political spectrum agree: the American military gets its recruits from America’s poor. There’s just one problem. They’re all wrong. Kinda.In my last column, I mentioned in passing that the American military tends to be made up of America’s most disadvantaged citizens. The image of the military as the last refuge of the poor has gotten a lot of play since the start of the Iraq war. It’s a myth that serves both sides of the debate...
...along with Dan Meridor and Benjamin Begin, were once called the four princes of Likud--and of them, Olmert was regarded as the least likely to succeed, a smart inside operator but a politician, not a statesman. He will have to perform in the spotlight now, and inside players tend to wilt when shoved onto center stage. Netanyahu has become Israel's Richard Nixon--his negatives are stratospheric, but he is a tough competitor, a plausible Prime Minister. Olmert will have another opponent as well: the memory of Ariel Sharon. Olmert won a quiet battle last week, establishing post-Sharon...
...drug users mature, geriatric biology and life circumstances tend to tighten the drugs' hold. Reduced body mass, slower metabolism and less efficient kidneys and liver mean that the same quantity of drug hits harder and stays in the body longer. Older users who think they're keeping their doses fixed are thus, in effect, steadily increasing them. What's more, the loss of a spouse or job or merely the boredom of retirement could tip the nonuser into experimentation and the borderline user into full-blown addiction. Moses, 57, never touched heroin until 2001, when his wife died. But when...