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2012-02-04 Sociology - Strange Interactions:

There is much going on here that goes beyond sociology and more towards advise for friends and lovers.   Personal relationships are already complicated by the individuals involved and their personal issues

2012-01-28 Economics - unemployment rate:

Hello Amanda,    your confusion is perfectly understandable - and legitimate.    It stems from the misuse of saying "unemployment rose by 1%" or "unemployment fell by "2% opposed to last year" when the

2012-01-27 Anthropology - importance of statictis in anthropology:

All sciences use statistics.  In archaeology, one uses statistics to describe variation in the quantities and properties of the things we find and to test for the significance of differences among data

2012-01-24 Economics - Selling/dumping US debt by China?:

Hello Michael,    China (and others) holds US debt by having purchased US Treasury bonds, i.e. by having given the US Treasury a loan in exchange of the promise to be repaid in e.g. 30 years and by annual

2012-01-24 Crime & Law Enforcement Issues - arrested on paper without my knowledge:

James, I apologize for the misunderstanding. I mistook 20 for 2 and I ALSO have to apologize for such a long response as a result of my misunderstanding. I just got off of the phone with our techs in our