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If your family moves during your school years (ages 6-15), your chance of graduating high school falls by 16 percent, the chance that you'll be "economically inactive" (out of school and out of work) at age 24 rises by 10 percent--and, if you are female, your chance of getting through your teens without an out-of-wedlock birth falls by 6 percent.
But when the economy is actually growing at 3 percent, the statistics will say that it is growing at 2 percent--and yet it cannot grow any faster.
The new company formed by MCI-Worldcom and Sprint will control about 30 percent of the U.S. long-distance market--second to AT&T's 45 percent--and at $200 billion will be the biggest telecom in the world, says the Wall Street Journal . The merger marks the increasing importance of wireless networks and data-voice integration.