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College Students Turn Away From Landlines
prostoalex writes "You're as likely to find a landline in a college dorm as you're an old typewriter, according to this Washington Post article on MSNBC. While roughly 30% of college students had a cell phone 5 years ago, more than 90% have them today, resulting in student directories including out-of-state numbers instead of 4-digit extensions. More trivia on college students: 90% own a PC, 65% have broadband, 62% own a stereo system, 74% have a DVD player, 55% have a gaming system. What the Washington Post article also hints at, is possible tuition hikes due to the landlines dropped so quickly. "Six or seven years ago, telephones on campus were a cash cow," said Glenn Gaslin of Morrisville State College in New York."
I might understand why marketers would be interested in this, but why does it belong on slashdot?
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At least 2.3 million adults and children, or nearly 1 percent of the U.S. population, are likely to experience a spell of homelessness at least once during the year. This likelihood grows to 6.3 percent if one considers only people living in poverty, according to the newest national analysis of homelessness by Urban Institute researchers Martha Burt and Laudan Aron. At the same time, there is a bigger and more diverse network of homeless services than in 1987, when the Urban Institute released earlier national estimates of the homeless population.
On any given night, over 37,000 people are homeless in New York City, including more than 16,000 children. The population of the New York City municipal shelter system reached a record high in December 2002.
According to the Ford Foundation, nearly fifty percent of all homeless women and children are fleeing domestic violence. According to New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi's report during the first quarter of 1997, the New York City Police Department reported 83,040 reports; however the current number of shelter beds in the City was only 1,201.
According to Homes For The Homeless, families account for 38% of America's homeless.
Each night across America more than one million children have no place to call home.
I have not met one person here (La-La Land) who does not agree with my anecdotal evidence.
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Farang Whites From the Thai word for French (farangsayt) who were among the first to colonize Southeast Asia. Generally non-derogatory, though depends on context and intention of speaker. Applies to people of non-Thai origin.
Farang/Falang Whites Means foreigner (i.e. non-Thai) of the white race. It is very frequently used in a simple descriptive way. It's negative only if the intent of the speaker is such.
Farq Whites Arab word, meaning "chicken," used to describe whites and light skinned arabs as in weak and fragile
Fat Albert Blacks Used against overweight African American males in reference to a popular 1980's cartoon created by Bill Cosby (for example, saying "hey hey hey" around a fat black man could be considered offensive by some)
FBI (1) Native Americans Full Blooded Indian. Used in the movie Thunderheart. Not really a slur.
Feargal Blacks Short for Feargal Sharkey (a UK Pop singer from late 70's and 80's) which rhymes with Darkie.
Feather Native Americans Used to differentiate Indians from India ("Dots") from those from America ("Feathers").
Feb (1) Blacks February is Black history month.
Feb (2) British Stands for Filthy (or Fucking) English Bastard.
Felipe Parkhurst Guatemalans Exiled from the country for life for selling many children to slavery.
Fence Fairy Mexicans Reference to border crossing.
Fence-Hopper Mexicans Mexicans hopping fences to get into the U.S.
Fenian Irish Refers to Irish Roman Catholic immigrants living in such large U.K. cities as Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. Also used by Protestants to demean Catholics in Northern Ireland. Irish republicans use it to identify themselves as a member of Sien Fienn, the political party of the IRA.
Fez Arabs They wear fezes, the little hats.
Fidel Hispanics Reference to the infamous Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Field Nigger Blacks Field nigger is the term used to label blacks who choose not to identify with popular white society and culture, as opposed to house niggers--blacks who bend over backwards to win or maintain favor with whites while relishing in the fact that they at least reside in the house with the master rather then outside with the majority of blacks.
Field Rat Mexicans Working in Migrant Fields
Fig Gobbler Arabs They eat figs.
FILA Blacks Finally I Left Africa, popular clothing brand
Fili Cheese Steak Filipinos Refers to what it looks like when a Filipino woman is in a gangbang
Filthy Pino Filipinos Poor Filipinos, Filipinos who act black.
Fingernail Ranchers Asians A lot of Asians own Nail Salons
Firangi Whites From Arabic "Firanji" or "Firangi" in Egyptian Arabic, meaning "European". Corruption of "French" or "Franks". Made famous in a slyly ironic way by the ultracapitalist Ferengi on Star Trek.
Fire Crotch Irish They have red hair
Firecracker (1) Whites White women who date Black men. There used to be a firecracker called a "niggerchaser" but today they are called simply "chasers."
Firecracker (2) Arabs They blow themselves up.
Firewood Jews WWII Holocaust reference. 'Nazi Firewood' to be more specific.
Fischkopf Germans "Fish-head" used by southern Germans for northern Germans
Fish (1) Israelis Fucking Israeli Shithead. See: Dib.
Fish (2) Portuguese Bacalou (codfish) is a major part of their diet.
Fish-Belly Whites Similar color
Fish-Eater (1) Catholics Catholic, after the old Catholic tradition of not eating red-meat on Fridays. Eating fish containing high levels of mercury and other heavy metals was a way of atoning for their sins. The practice was discontinued after the Pope noticed the number of Catholics mysteriously declining.
Fish-Eater (2) Norwegians Their diet consists mainly of fish.
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