Population decline in rural counties
About 46 percent of rural counties in the U.S. lost population over the last decade, while metropolitan areas—defined as cities and their suburbs—grew 10.8 percent.
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In China, no room for the dead
China is running out of room to bury the 9 million Chinese who die each year, and is urging people to choose cremation and bury ashes at sea or under trees.
USA Today
Bristol Palin's big paycheck
Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol was paid $262,500 in 2009 by the Candie’s Foundation to help raise awareness about teen pregnancy. The nonprofit foundation, which took in $1.7 million in donations, gave a total of $35,000 to groups trying to lower teen-pregnancy rates.
Associated Press
What the Boston Medical Group doesn't say
The Boston Medical Group does not say so in the radio and newspaper ads it buys across the country, but its primary treatment for erectile dysfunction is a powerful mix of drugs a man must inject in his own penis with a syringe every time he wants to have sex.
Los Angeles Times
Playing partisan politics with press releases
About 27 percent of congressional press releases are devoted to taunting the other party. A Harvard researcher found that while most of the 64,000 press releases he studied claim credit for a success, or stake out a position, more than 1 in 4 are devoted to such statements as, “[The other party] is not listening to the American people.”
The Washington Post
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Very rich and very poor in California, and morefeature California is home to 111 billionaires, yet it also suffers the highest poverty rate in the country.
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Arctic cold kills tree insects, and more
feature This winter’s arctic temperatures have had at least one beneficial impact: They’ve killed ash borers, gypsy moths, and other tree-eating insects.
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Congress's poor record, and more
feature The 113th Congress is on course to pass less legislation than any Congress in history.
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Gender differences in employment, and more
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A first for West Point, and more
feature For the first time, two male graduates of West Point were married at the military academy’s chapel.
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A God given land?, and more
feature More white evangelical Protestants than U.S Jews believe that Israel was “given to the Jewish people by God.”
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Jailing the mentally ill, and more
feature American prisons have replaced state mental hospitals as a place to warehouse the mentally ill.
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Treating Internet addiction, and more
feature Treating Internet addiction; Freshman virgins at Harvard; A salary handicap for lefties; Prices for vintage automobiles soar; Gun permits for blind people