A trend that was interrupted in 2006 and 2007 has resumed since then: Fewer girls are getting pregnant.
A lot of good-news statistics in this story. Pretty much across the board, rates are down.
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The 1,200-year-old European pilgrimage route known as the Way of St. James is undergoing a revival. Tens of thousands of people are walking across France to the Spanish coastal city of Santiago de Compostela, and the relics of St. James. Once a religious affair, it’s now a cultural and social phenomenon as well.
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Bees could build flat honeycombs from just three shapes: squares, triangles or hexagons. But for some reason, bees choose hexagons. Always “perfect” hexagons. Why?
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Every month seems to bring news that another state official in New York is under indictment. Corruption can happen anywhere, but New York’s political culture contributes to the problem.
The last Census showed 9 million people, about 3 percent of the population, reporting more than one race. That’s an increase of one-third from the decade before and that number is only going up.
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And going back to the 1950s and ’60s, nearly 100 percent.
Since a garment factory collapsed last month in Dhaka, killing more than 400 people, ethical fashion has been in the spotlight. Elizabeth Cline, author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Price of Cheap Fashion, explains the economy that created this tragedy and what we can do to fix it.
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Getting groceries delivered may be the easiest environmentally friendly thing you’ve ever done, new research says. Think of it as your food taking mass transit.
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The French may have a global reputation as gastronomes, but the majority of their restaurant spending now goes to fast food chains, a new survey finds. The change comes amid shrinking lunch breaks and growing laxity among the French when it comes to their famously rigid food culture rules.
There are 1,200 McDonald’s and 400 Subways, while the number of cafes has dropped from more than 200,000 after World War II to just 32,000 today.
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Their share is second only to married couples.
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