Day archives: May 16th, 2015

Childlessness Falls, Family Size Grows Among Highly Educated Women

Pew Report – Among the Highly Educated, Declines in Childlessness and Increases in Big Families, May 2015 –  “Among women in the United States, postgraduate education and motherhood are increasingly going hand-in-hand. The share of highly educated women who are remaining childless into their mid-40s has fallen significantly over the past two decades. Today, about …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents

Study – regular daily exercise increases male life span

I. Holme, S. A. Anderssen. Increases in physical activity is as important as smoking cessation for reduction in total mortality in elderly men: 12 years of follow-up of the Oslo II study. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2015; 49 (11): 743 DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2014-094522 “Background Physical activity (PA) at leisure by the elderly, and its relationship …

Subjects: Health Care

Federal Railroad Administration Office of Safety Analysis

“Welcome to the FRA Office of Safety Analysis Web Site. The purpose of this site is to make railroad safety information including accidents and incidents, inventory and highway-rail crossing data readily available to the public.  Site users can run dynamic queries, download a variety of safety database files, publications and forms, and view current statistical …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Transportation

2014 Capital Bikeshare Member Survey Report

“This report [April 3, 2015] presents the results of the November 2014 Capital Bikeshare Customer Use and Satisfaction Surveyconducted for the Capital Bikeshare program (Capital Bikeshare), a program jointly owned and sponsored by the District of Columbia, Arlington County, VA, the City of Alexandria, VA, and Montgomery County, MD, and operated by Motivate International, Inc. …

Subjects: Transportation

Mobile Carriers Will Refund Current and Former Customers

“Sprint and Verizon Wireless customers: You may be entitled to refunds for illegal charges “crammed” onto your bills over the past five years. Both companies have agreed to pay back customers for letting third-party vendors charge them for unauthorized services like premium SMS or text messaging.If you don’t know whether you were billed for these …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research