The best sentences I read today
From the AP, “Positive Trends Recorded in U.S. Data on Teenagers,” July 12th: The teenage birth rate in 2005, the report said, was 21 per 1,000 young women ages 15 to 17 ? an all-time low. The rate in 1991 was 39 births per 1,000 teenagers. Is it just me, or is that both a ...
From the AP, "Positive Trends Recorded in U.S. Data on Teenagers," July 12th: The teenage birth rate in 2005, the report said, was 21 per 1,000 young women ages 15 to 17 ? an all-time low. The rate in 1991 was 39 births per 1,000 teenagers.Is it just me, or is that both a stunning and unambiguously positive change? Actually, Ezra Klein manages to provide just a smidgen of ambiguity (though I suspect even he would approve of this outcome).
From the AP, “Positive Trends Recorded in U.S. Data on Teenagers,” July 12th:
The teenage birth rate in 2005, the report said, was 21 per 1,000 young women ages 15 to 17 ? an all-time low. The rate in 1991 was 39 births per 1,000 teenagers.
Is it just me, or is that both a stunning and unambiguously positive change? Actually, Ezra Klein manages to provide just a smidgen of ambiguity (though I suspect even he would approve of this outcome).
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and the author of The Ideas Industry. Twitter: @dandrezner
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