Overall, men have a higher rate of current cocaine use than do women. Also, according to the 2002 NSDUH, estimated rates of current cocaine users were 2.0 percent for American Indians or Alaskan Natives, 1.6 percent for African-Americans, 0.8 percent for both Whites and Hispanics, 0.6...
82 percent of Americans believe that Muslims are discriminated against in the country, and 63 percent agree that believing in Islam would stifle opportunities for personal development in American society. Hate crimes against Muslims amount to the hundreds each year. Shortly after winning presidential el...
During World War II, hundreds of U.S. aircraft flew across the North Atlantic to bases in England via the perilous "Snowball Route," which necessitated landing in Greenland to refuel and then taking off again, sometimes into the path of brutal snowstorms. About 10 percent of the planes cras...
a median 26 percent said that rule by a strong leader who could make decisions without interference from the legislature or the courts would be a good form of government. Countering any claim of American exceptionalism, the percentage of Americans who agreed was exactly the same. (“Sometimes yo...
The United States has less than five percent of the world's population. But it uses about twenty-five percent of the world's oil. More than half of the nation's oil is imported. Most of it goes to transportation. But festival organizers say progress in technology is making it possible ...
Mestizo Americans are Latino Americans whose racial and/or ethnic identity is Mestizo, i.e. amixed ancestry of European and Amerindian from Latin America(usually Ibero-Indigenous mixed ancestry). What jobs did mestizos have? Bearing Spanish names but a culture that was a mixture of Indian and ...
Forty years ago a flush toilet in China was a luxury. Today it has its own Space Station. This is a tiny example of China’s capabilities. It doesn’t matter who we are. Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, even Americans. Next to the Chinese, we are pathetic. We can’...
The numbers in a table are arranged in 10rows and 4 columns such that one number is placed at the intersection of each row and column.HOW many numbers are contained in the table? If x is pcrcent more than y,then y is what percent less than x? At 9:00 a.m.train T 1eft the tr...
Type 1 diabetes is also called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) or juvenile-onset diabetes and it accounts for 5 percent to 10 percent of all diagnosed cases of diabetes. Autoimmune, genetic, and environmental factors contribute to the onset of this type of diabetes. The onset of Type...
If Indians were scarce in the founding days at Portsmouth, they had good reasons. Historians estimate that as much as 80 to 90 percent of the local Native population died of exposure to smallpox and other diseases carried by European visitors at the beginning of the 17thcentury. This "Great...