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A new trend in teenage sex?, and more
feature According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 57 percent of girls in the U.S. between 15 and 19 have not had sexual intercourse.
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Aging inmates and health-care costs, and more
feature The increasing age of the nation’s inmates is causing steep rises in health-care costs for prison systems.
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Out-of-wedlock births climb, and more
feature More than half of births to American women under the age of 30 now occur outside of marriage.
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The world’s richest 1 percent, and more
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Clooney's $15 million fund-raiser, and more
feature President Obama raised nearly $15 million in one night at a fund-raiser at the Los Angeles home of actor George Clooney.
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Weighing in on women's issues, and more
feature When the media covers women’s issues, men do most of the talking.
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Robots on the battlefield, and more
feature The U.S. military has deployed about 3,500 robots to search for bombs or enemy soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The wealth gap between blacks and whites, and more
feature The median white household has 22 times more wealth than the median black household.
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Understanding the tax code, and more
feature In the course of the last decade, there have been 4,428 changes to the federal tax code, or more than one per day.
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A warm start to the year, and more
feature The U.S. just experienced the warmest start to a year since records began, in 1895.
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A per capita view of Olympic medals, and more
feature The U.S. won 104 medals at the Olympic Games, the most of any country—but on a per capita basis, we ranked just 50th.
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Household gun ownership falls, and more
feature Though the number of guns sold each year keeps climbing, the percentage of Americans who own guns has been falling steadily.
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Job openings go unfilled, and more
feature Manufacturers say they now need workers who are trained in the use of computers, automation, and other technologies.
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Fewer couples file for divorce, and more
feature Hard economic times have produced a major drop in the number of people filing for divorce.
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