By contrast, just 4.4 percent of poor kids in Charlotte moved up to the top; in Detroit the figure was 5.5 percent.

相比之下，夏洛特的贫困儿童中，跻身上层的人仅有4.4%；而底特律这一数字为5.5%。

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To become a Mensa member, you must have an IQ that falls in the top 2 percent of the population that take the tests.

要成为门萨会员，你的智商必须在参加测试的人群中处于前2%。

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A Los Angeles study suggested that four consecutive years of having a teacher from the top 25 percent of the pool would erase the black-white testing gap.

一项洛杉矶研究表明连续四年有一个民调前25%的老师将会擦除学生考试成绩的差距。

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Meanwhile,with global growth expected to top four percent in 2010 compared to a decline of .6 percent in 2009, industry leaders in the United States say they are optimistic that the total number of foreign visitors will start to grow.

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Hedge-fund managers have made so much money for themselves that they are in the top percent of the one percent.

ECONOMIST: The success of hedge funds

According to the University, the total income of the top 20 percent of the rural households was 10.19 times higher than the bottom 20 percent and that the wealth gap in west China was bigger than in the east of the country.

FORBES: The China Miracle: A Rising Wealth Gap

Don't forget, in the decade before the crash, 90 percent of the gains went to the top 10 percent, 43 percent to the top 1 percent, and we also paid -- got most of the tax cuts.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House