Seattle University professor Galen Trail said Seattle might be smaller than the others, but the average disposable income is pretty high.

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You might think that the 7.2 Mbps sounds pretty good, but remember that this is an average, not a baseline.

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But they're pretty bad at raising HDL, boosting it on average 8%, compared with a 27% drop in bad cholesterol.

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We've heard some pretty outlandish claims about the recommended screen size for the "average" American den, but a new writeup over at Channel4 is suggesting that even Europeans are gravitating towards larger sets.

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But at a time of mass unemployment, it looks like a pretty good tradeoff that should raise per capita output and average incomes.

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