Average Wages of Professors in the U.S. Last Year | ||
Compared with each other | Full professors: (1) dollars. Associate professors: 70,000 dollars. Assistant professors: 59,000 dollars. | |
Private, (2) schools pay more than public colleges and universities. | ||
(3) professors generally earn less than those teaching other subjects. | ||
Compared with other workers | Earned the same amount as workers in business and (4) operations. | |
Earned about 10,000 dollars less than computer (5) |
Average Wages of Professors in the U.S. Last Year | ||
Compared with each other | Full professors: (1) dollars. Associate professors: 70,000 dollars. Assistant professors: 59,000 dollars. | |
Private, (2) schools pay more than public colleges and universities. | ||
(3) professors generally earn less than those teaching other subjects. | ||
Compared with other workers | Earned the same amount as workers in business and (4) operations. | |
Earned about 10,000 dollars less than computer (5) |
Some heartening statistics were reported last year by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute: the mortality rate for breast cancer dropped nearly five percent between 1989 and 1992, the Largest decline since 1950. The numbers were even more dramatic for young women: between 1987 and 1992, the mortality rate plummeted nearly 18 percent among white women younger than 40.
But discouraging news also surfaced: the mortality rate among black women has gone up, and the number of reported breast cancer cases is rising as well. Twenty years ago a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer was one in 12; now it’s one in eight.
Nevertheless, we’re on the verge of a revolution in treating this disease. Researchers now have a clear picture of how a cancer cell becomes a tumor -- and how cells break free from a tumor and glide through the bloodstream to seed a new one in another part of the body. And they better understand how the female hormone estrogen mak
A. The mortality rate for breast cancer dropped.
B. The mortality rate among black women has increased.
C. The number of reported breast cancer cases is rising.
D. A woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer is rising.
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