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Teen girls suddenly are the audience of choice for many filmmakers, BusinessWeek reports. It says 10- to 18-year-old females flocking to the ticket window is good news for studios, which have watched other parts of their audience fragment or drift away to the Web.
Fifty-five percent of women who had a baby in 2000 worked through pregnancy, according to census figures, compared with 38 percent in 1980. That means in 2000, 2.2-million women worked through a grab bag of symptoms - excitement, fatigue, nausea, anxiety, spaciness, aching backs, swelling feet and, in some cases, painful complications.
It has been tougher for students to find internships this year. A February-March survey of 212 employers by the National Association of Colleges and Employers in Bethlehem, Pa., found that the employers planned to trim the number of interns hired for the summer by 1.8 percent from a year earlier.
With graduations in full swing, now may not be the time to hear this. But the National Association of Colleges and Employers reports that the top bachelor's degrees in demand this year are: mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, accounting, business administration/management, economics/finance, computer science, management information systems, marketing/marketing management, information sciences and systems, and computer engineering.
The number of consumers who pay off their credit card balances in full each month has dropped for three consecutive years - from 44.4 percent in 2000 to 38.3 percent in 2003, according to newly released data from CardWeb.com. On average, Americans pay off about 14 to 16 percent of their credit card balances each month, the Web site says. And many don't think twice about making just the minimum payments.
Bugged by someone at work? You're not alone. The Orange County (Calif.) Register asked Dilbert creator Scott Adams for his top five office peeves: 1. speakerphone calls; 2. various nasal sounds; 3. nail clippings; 4. stealing lunches; and 5. people who take the last cup of coffee without brewing more.
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