Covering private and small companies
…business person in your city and see the companies with which he or she is involved. Courthouse filings. Companies sue each other all the time. They also buy and sell…
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Globally challenged: Are U.S. students ready to compete?
…both math and reading was the city of Shanghai, China. The study concludes that the “United States could enjoy a remarkable increment in its annual GDP growth per capita by…
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The state of infrastructure in the United States and the world, 2011
…Seattle, and Salt Lake City metropolitan regions have found innovative ways to fund new transportation initiatives — the report finds only limited progress nationally. The U.S. is “laboring without a…
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Research chat: Clay Shirky on press freedom in a global era
…in Italy a documentary made about the priestly abuse scandal, first discovered and documented in this city by The Boston Globe, that documentary movie was going to be shown to…
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Impact of juvenile curfew laws on arrests of youth and adults
…and approximately 10% in following years. “In the average city, a permanent 10% reduction corresponds to roughly 135 [fewer] youth arrests per year.” Arrests of young adults in their late…
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Educational and psychological outcomes between LGBTQ and straight students in middle and high school
…to a large city.” The study’s findings include: Within the sample, approximately 5% of the students self-identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning (LGBTQ). The most at risk of…
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Automobiles on steroids: Trade-offs and technological progress in the automobile sector
…2000 Honda Insight, which averaged 70 mpg on the highway and 61 in the city. The fuel efficiency of subsequent models dropped as the car grew significantly larger and more…
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DNA evidence, forensic science and confessions that corrupt
…are used. A 2012 study from the City University of New York, the University of California-Irvine and Nova Southeastern University published in Psychological Science, “Confessions That Corrupt: Evidence from the…
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Cities, skills and wages in the United States
…physical skills are shifting toward smaller and medium-sized regions. Thus, physical skills do not appear to benefit from city size or concentration.” Physical skills appear to be associated with lower…
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U.S. Justice Department: Does Neighborhood Watch reduce crime?
…justified on the basis of reducing middle class fear of crime and flight from the city, since no such effects have been found.” Keywords: crime, profiling, ethnicity and community, policing…
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