• Yet too often, it seems that the federal government is stuck in the age of black-and-white television while we are competing in the age of the iPad.

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  • And a November analysis by Civicyouth.org at Tufts University noted that younger black males (age 18-24) have never been as excited about Barack Obama as women are.

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  • We live and do business in the information age, but the last major reorganization of the government happened in the age of black- and-white TV.

    CNN: Transcript: Obama's State of the Union speech

  • We live and do business in the information age, but the last major reorganization of the government happened in the age of black and white TV.

    FORBES: Full Text: State Of The Union Address

  • That compares with HIV prevalence among black men in that age group who aren't incarcerated of 3.3%, according to tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    WSJ: Why Surveys Should Listen More to Prisoners

  • Since when were the Little Ice Age and the Black Death the Good Old Days?

    FORBES: The Black Death: Longing For The Good Old Days

  • For black boys, the average age of 9 was about two years earlier than in previous research.

    FORBES: Study Shows that Early Puberty is Now Affecting Boys, Just Like Girls

  • So the average age at widowhood for black and Hispanic women is 54.

    NPR: Women Of Color Lag Behind In Wealth

  • The other investment-banking co-head, Steve Black, who is nearing retirement age, will leave after a transition period.

    ECONOMIST: American bank bosses

  • For instance, commonly accepted numbers show that the turnout rate among black male high-school dropouts age 20 to 34 surged between 1980 and 2008, to the point where about one in three were voting in presidential races.

    WSJ: Why Surveys Should Listen More to Prisoners

  • That helps to explain why, in 2001, 55% of black Africans in Britain were under the age of 30, compared to just 37% of Afro-Caribbeans.

    ECONOMIST: Immigration

  • The list of top discoveries made with Hubble reads like the hit parade of astronomy: a mysterious new "dark energy" causing the accelerating expansion of the universe, distances to other galaxies, the supermassive black holes at their centers, the age of the universe, planet formation around other stars, searches for signs of extraterrestrial life -- and the list goes on.

    CNN: Space is still the new frontier

  • Breast cancer screening is in fact based on a radiation benefit ratio, not cost, but suppose that anaysis were to show that the screening should be different for black women, either earlier because of age as above, or avoided completely because of the lower rate of disease and higher radiation sensitivity in youger women making it more likely to kill than cure.

    BBC: Race bias in cancer 'costing lives'

  • And I never was like really, at that age, around a lot more black girls at a day-to-day basis.

    NPR: Roundtable: Black Women and Body Image

  • Catherine Morris, curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, sat on a Brooklyn Museum stage with Ono, age 79, in her iconic black tilted fedora and lowered dark shades.

    FORBES: Yoko Ono Honored For Feminist Art, Says Not Saying Anything With Art "A Waste"

  • There is also concern that there is a wide gap between the achievements of white and black pupils, with black 17 year olds having an average reading age four years behind their white counterparts.

    BBC: Handwriting

  • Directors in the Aston Martin heritage program had searched extensively to find the perfect vehicle for the movie, and they transformed the one they found from green with a beige interior into a Silver-Birch painted car with black trim distressed to add the patina of age.

    FORBES: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Bond Car In Skyfall

  • With Black Caviar's form seemingly better than ever despite her age, her connections have hinted that a return to Royal Ascot, scene of her narrowest-ever victory, may be on the cards later this summer before a rendezvous with Frankel in the breeding shed in what would surely be considered the racing world's own royal wedding.

    CNN: Black Caviar scores her quarter century

  • The black-white gap, he pointed out, differs dramatically by age.

    NEWYORKER: None of the Above

  • Thousands of people joined the throng that had been following the moon since the early hours of the morning, people of all colors, whole families with children of every age, especially as the procession filed past the crowded black and Puerto Rican areas of Harlem.

    NEWYORKER: The Daughters of the Moon

  • Its supporters are multiracial (about 60% black and 18% white), middle class, relatively well educated and well balanced across all age groups.

    ECONOMIST: South Africa's elections

  • Gans eventually sacked his manager, confessed to the fixed fights, won international recognition as a fine champion and was mourned by thousands, white and black, at his funeral in Baltimore, when he died from tuberculosis at the then typically early age of 35.

    ECONOMIST: The black white hope

  • At age 8, he completely lost his eyesight to cancer but nonetheless went on to become a black belt in karate, a jazz pianist, a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, an editor of the law review at Yale and an attorney at a prestigious Seattle-based firm.

    NPR: For Blind Lawmaker, Biography Reflects In Policy

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