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Stop smoking for three years and save enough money to buy an ox.--The slogan of China's 1995 anti-smoking campaign

Montreal.



There has been a 4.5X (and 350%) increase in New Mexico’s crude oil production over the last 8 years, from 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2011 (and about the same level as for the previous 30 years) to nearly 900,000 bpd in recent months this year. This is all the result of the revolutionary technologies of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, and the state’s proximity to the Permian Basin in West Texas, one of the most prolific oil fields in the world. Current production in the Permian Basin is more than 4 million bpd and about 25% of that production is across the Texas border in New Mexico.

 
For the highest SAT math test score range (700-800) there were 157 male high school students (127,392) for every 100 female students (80,974) that follows a 50+ year history of males significantly out-performing females on the Math SAT both for average scores (537 vs. 519 this year) but especially for scores on the high-end.
But, “There just aren’t gender differences anymore in math performance,” says UW–Madison psychology professor Janet Hyde.


In the past decade, nearly $1.36 trillion in net flows were added to U.S. equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that mimic market indexes while some $1.32 trillion fled higher-costing actively managed counterparts.

On a day of travel. a cartoon:

Patrick Cross