Intermarriage

Ketamine appears to have killed Matthew Perry. It is used mainly in hospital as an anesthetic. It has several hours of activity. It is also used in lower doses for depression and pain. It is used illegally as a hallucinogenic. It is a cardiac stimulant and respiratory depressant. Perry's dose was more than therapeutic and was clearly not given under supervision, especially when he was taking a therapeutic narcotic antagonist which would exaggerate the respiratory suppression of the ketamine.

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Germany may have to wage a defensive war against Russia in the future, German television news program Tagesschau reported on Dec. 9, citing Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces) Inspector General Carsten Breuer.
Breuer expressed concern about Russia's rearmament and the behavior of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, saying there will be no return to the times before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Germany will have to get used to the idea "that one day we might have to fight a defensive war," he said.

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The X-37B is a spaceplane, not quite 30 feet long and under 10 feet tall, with a pair of stubby wings and a rounded, bulldog-like nose— it looks like a miniature version of the space shuttle — is the Pentagon’s most mysterious spacecraft.

Intermarriage

Intermarriage in the U.S. is surprisingly hard to review. The topic interests me because of the high number of interracial couples that appear in television ads.

Whites make up 75.5% of the population, Hispanic and Latino 19.1%, Blacks 13.6%, Asian 6.3%

In 2019, 11% of all married U.S. adults had a spouse who was a different race or ethnicity from them, up from 3% in 1967. About 31% of married same-sex couples were interracial in 2022, much higher than the 19% of married opposite-sex couples that were interracial.

As of 2015, the largest share of intermarried couples includes one Hispanic and one White spouse. Some 15% are White and Asian, 12% are White and multiracial and 11% are White and Black.

That means that White-Black marriages would be 11% of the 19% interracial marriages plus, perhaps, 12% (multiracial) of the 19%--or a little over 4%. 

These are older numbers, mix the older and newly married, and do not include cohabitation so they may not be very accurate but they are lower than I expected, especially since the idea of advertising is to create identification between the audience and the ad.