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Like many men, I married up. And, according to sociologists at the University of Kansas and Texas A&M University, the number of men in my situation are increasing. At least when it comes to marrying up economically. That is because the number of highly educated (and therefore higher earning) women exceed the number of highly
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The Washington Post recently ran an article about young Lena Geller, a newly enrolled student at George Washington University. Like most freshmen students, Ms. Geller is learning the ins and outs of college life. But as the WaPo explains, she is also learning to juggle her studies with managing her own business as a baker
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I remember a story my college economics professor told my class many years ago about the differences she saw between her American economics students and the Chinese ones she taught during frequent sabbaticals to Beijing. She said that the Chinese economics students generally had superior math skills and the ability to quickly solve complex calculus
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We’ve all seen them, haven’t we? I mean those ugly shots of lungs featured in anti-smoking campaigns. It’s not likely that a cigar-smoking G.K. Chesterton ever caught this particular act. After all, in his day tobacco was still a century away from achieving its current—and much vaunted—status as the great moral evil of our time.
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Liberals often lament that conservatives are “deniers” of this-or-that scientific result, such as evolution or anthropocentric climate change. And there is some truth to this charge. Many Americans who identify as conservatives do deny that most species today originated from earlier ones via natural selection of genetic mutations, or that human carbon emissions have anything
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