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• Economy Is Forcing Young Adults Back Home in Big Numbers, Survey Finds

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  The numbers also show that, blaming the economy, young adults are postponing decisions like getting married and having babies.
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• More than half Americans fear rise of Muslim extremism

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New York, Nov 20 (IANS) More than half of Americans fear the rise of Islamic extremism, says a survey taken after the shooting at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas earlier this month.In the worst-ever shooting at any US army base, Major Nidal Malik Hassan, an army psychiatrist, allegedly mowed down 12 fellow soldiers ...
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• Pew poll: Democrats more supportive of faith-based funding than Republicans

  
  JW Political Insider — Authority: 420
  A new Pew Research Center poll has some interesting findings for advocates of expanding access to government funds for religious groups that provide health and social service programs, including the major Orthodox groups (Jewish “defense” organizations like the ADL generally oppose such programs).According to the ...
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• Pew Internet Project Study: Networking fosters diversity, interaction

  
  The Nevada Sagebrush — Authority: 493
  University of Nevada, Reno students are mimicking a national trend that shows social networkers have more close friends, visit public places more often and have more diverse points of view. The Pew Internet Project study, Social Isolation and New Technology, debunks traditional assumptions that heavy Internet users ...
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• Participatory medicine and health data rights on NPR

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 553
  NPR’s Morning Edition story, “ Patients Turn to Online Buddies for Help Healing ,” combined research and real-life examples , participatory medicine and health data rights . Much of what I said during my interview with Joseph Shapiro is based on what I’ve written and read here on e-patients.net, so, ...
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• FM newswire, 13 November – links to old-fashioned journalism

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 536
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 5 sections, all with hot news.Links to interesting news and analysisNews, updates to posts past on the FM websiteQuote of the Day, advice from the pastNews about themes from posts past on the FM websiteNote from the past – about the French Foreign ...
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• Pew Poll Finds Strong Anti-Incumbent Sentiment Among Americans

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 152
  By Jonathan D. SalantNov. 11 (Bloomberg) — A year before the next U.S. congressional elections, just 52 percent of registered voters want their representatives to Congress to be re-elected, a poll found.That figure is similar to numbers recorded in 2006 and 1994, the last two elections in which control of both ...
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• Poll warns incumbents not to get too comfy in Congress

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 615
  WASHINGTON — When New Jersey and Virginia voters elected non-incumbent Republicans in last week’s gubernatorial races, the GOP trumpeted the results as a turning tide. A new poll by the Pew Research Center — a non-partisan, Washington-based think tank — suggests that Republicans might…
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• Will latest polls weigh on Obama?

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 680
  President Barack Obama summoned his war council today for what may be a pivotal meeting as he decides what to do in Afghanistan. While Obama weighs up his options on whether to send in more troops — with most money on about 30,000 more – he might also glance at the latest round of public opinion polls on ...
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• Attitudes, Latitudes and Boundaries: A fractured reality

  
  spatially relevant — Authority: 467
  Pew research’s pulse presentation on attitudes on capitalism and democracy post the berlin wall collapse has some interesting insights by geography and cohort groups. The change in attitudes and opinions are expected for the most part, but interesting nonetheless to look at. Pew Global Attitudes – Public ...
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• Protecting American values from extremists

  
  The United States of Jamerica — Authority: 421
  I agree with conservatives like David Horowitz and John Hinderacker ; in light of the shooting at Ft. Hood, we need to reassert and protect our values. The question of course, is the who we’re protecting our values from . Hint: it’s not Muslims. But first, a few quick points about Muslim-American ...
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• Tell the FDA the whole story, please

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 553
  I scan menus for keywords (fig, parsnips, salmon…) and it turns out I scan Twitter the same way, looking for anyone who is talking about my favorite topics (data, consumers, information quality…) So when I saw Jonathan Richman ’s tweet the other night, I couldn’t resist it: Anyone ever seen data on the ...
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• Protecting American values from extremists

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 677
  I agree with conservatives like  David Horowitz and  John Hinderacker ; in light of the shooting at Ft. Hood, we need to reassert and protect our values.  The question of course, is the  who we’re protecting our values  from .  Hint: it’s not Muslims.  But first, a few quick points about Muslim-American ...
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• Survey Says: 49% of Americans Don’t Much Like Homosexuality

  
  The United States of Jamerica — Authority: 421
  This exchange between  Rod Dreher and  Ta-Nehisi Coates on the basis of opposition to same-sex marriage is interesting, if only because it provides another striking example of how ones identity has an incredible impact on how one views the world and other human beings.  That is, it’s pretty easy to believe that ...
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• Helping Grandpa Get His Tech On

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 436
  Image via Wikipedia by David Pogue – NY Times A few days before my 100-year-old mother’s death this summer, she said she had only one regret: not being able to see her family in California again. But then I realized that I had my MacBook (with its built-in webcam) in my briefcase. A few phone calls later ...
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• Murdoch’s Fox News Is the Outlier

  
  Serious Implications — Authority: 114
  Source: Pew Research Center . Recently, the Obama Administration has taken some flack over its criticism of Fox News. Former Bush White House press secretary Dana Perino, who now works for Fox, said such treatment of the press was “un-American” even though she did the same thing a few years ago to NBC, as ...
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• Here’s a Surprise

  
  Lahdee's World — Authority: 120
  Do we have a Surprise! day in the United States? No? Such a shame. If we did, and I propose we should (perhaps on April 2nd so all those punked on the 1st can come back with a Surprise! on the 2nd), we could share such gems as this from The Pew Research Center.The Fox [...]
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• Americans Increasingly Aware of the Fox News Liberal Agenda

  
  Indecision Forever — Authority: 579
  Fox News, the most important name in shouting, has been under attack from the White House, and has attacked the White House back, but what about you, the people? Where is your perspective in all this? Arent you supposed to decide? Well, the Pew Research Center asked, and Americans have spoken. A recent poll ...
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• Westporters Take Stand on Global Warming

  
  CT Green Scene — Authority: 125
  by Monique Bosch Westport residents ignored torrential rain and headed for Compo beach at dawn Saturday, October 24th, to participate in the International Day of Climate Action. It marked the largest day of environmental action in history. Westport was only...
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