Overweight Older People Live LongerLast summer, researchers in Canada reported the same findings after analyzing data from more than 11,000 adults followed for more than a decade.
In that study, people who met the criteria for being overweight were 17% less likely to die compared to people of normal weight.
In the newly reported research, overweight study participants in their 70s followed for up to 10 years had a 13% lower risk of death than participants classified as normal weight.
Professor Is a Label That Leans to the Left - NYTimes.comTypecasting, of course, is not the only cause for the liberal tilt. The characteristics that define one’s political orientation are also at the fore of certain jobs, the sociologists reported. Nearly half of the political lopsidedness in academia can be traced to four characteristics that liberals in general, and professors in particular, share: advanced degrees; a nonconservative religious theology (which includes liberal Protestants and Jews, and the nonreligious); an expressed tolerance for controversial ideas; and a disparity between education and income.
Teachers pass math anxiety to female students, study finds - latimes.comBy the spring, 20 of the girls subscribed to the math-is-for-boys stereotype; they were more likely to have been taught by math-anxious teachers. The girls scored an average of 102.5 on a test that asked them to count shapes and do simple addition and subtraction.
The average scores were higher for the other students: 107.8 for the remaining 45 girls and 107.7 for the 52 boys.
International Workers' Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaInternational Workers' Day (a name used interchangeably with may day) is a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement. May Day commonly sees organized street demonstrations and street marches by millions of working people and their labour unions throughout most of the countries of the world — though, as noted below, rarely in the United States and Canada.
Arrival of aliens ousts U.S. workers - Washington TimesAn Alabama employment agency that sent 70 laborers and construction workers to job sites in that state in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina says the men were sent home after just two weeks on the job by employers who told them "the Mexicans had arrived" and were willing to work for less.
Docket for 08-205Jan 21 2010 Adjudged to be AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART, and case REMANDED. Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Scalia and Alito, JJ., joined, in which Thomas, J., joined as to all but Part IV, and in which Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor, JJ., joined as to Part IV. Roberts, C. J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Alito, J., joined. Scalia, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Alito, J., joined, and in which Thomas, J., joined in part. Stevens, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.
Not Everything Has Changed | The American ProspectThis is not a battle that can be won with legal challenges or legislation. Yes, it would undoubtedly be greatly aided by the passage of major social policies such as universal child care. But at its core, this is a fight that plays out within homes and between partners. And as Gerson's research makes clear, the fight has not changed all that dramatically in the past 30 years. The public revolution may be unfinished, but the private revolution has barely begun.
The Associated Press: Prison population to have first drop since 1972About 739,000 prisoners were admitted to state and federal facilities last year, about 3,500 more than were released, according to new figures from the bureau. The 0.8 percent growth in the prison population is the smallest annual increase this decade and significantly less than the 6.5 percent average annual growth of the 1990s.
Overall, there were 1.6 million prisoners in state and federal prisons at the end of 2008.
American Sociological Association: Sociology of EducationSelected Articles
* Another Way Out: The Impact of Juvenile Arrests on High School Dropout Paul Hirschfield (October 2009)
* Why Do Immigrant Youths Who Never Enroll in U.S. Schools Matter? School Enrollment Among Mexicans and Non-Hispanic Whites R.S. Oropesa and Nancy S. Landale (July 2009)
* Interracial Friendships in the Transition to College: Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together Once They Leave the Nest? Elizabeth Stearns, Claudia Buchmann, and Kara Bonneau (April 2009)
* The Black-White Gap in Mathematics Course Taking Sean Kelly (January 2009)
* Educational Attainment, Teacher–Student Ratios, and the Risk of Adult Incarceration Among U.S. Birth Cohorts Since 1910 Richard Arum and Gary Lafree (October 2008)
* Are "Failing" Schools Really Failing? Removing the Influence of Nonschool Factors from Measures of School Quality Douglas B. Downey, Paul T. Von Hippel, and Melanie Hughes (July 2008)
* Student Engagement, Peer Social Capital, and School Dropout Among Mexican American and Non-Latino White Student Robert K. Ream and Russell W. Rumberger (April 2008)
* School Strategies and the "College-Linking" Process: Reconsidering the Effects of High Schools on College Enrollment (January 2008)
Racial Contradictions in College Basketball » The Color LinePerhaps fans consciously or unconsciously are more comfortable with the idea that Asian athletes are likely to remain “foreigners” and therefore will eventually return to “their own” country and won’t settle down in the U.S. and be in direct competition with Americans for jobs, etc., while Asian American athletes are in fact homegrown and are perceived to be a greater economic “threat” to “real” Americans. After all, many already perceive Asian Americans to be “taking over” other areas of American life such as colleges and universities.
