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The fate of NASA's moon rocks, and more
feature Of nearly 400 moon rocks given to state and world leaders after the Apollo 11 and 17 missions, almost 200 have been lost, destroyed, or stolen.
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Virginity among the young rises, and more
feature The percentage of 15- to 24-year-olds who’ve never had sex has risen to 28 percent, up from 22 percent in 2002.
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Potter films rake in billions, and more
feature The Harry Potter movie series has earned $6.37 billion at the box office over the past decade.
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U.S. green-card lottery draws 15 million, and more
feature A record 15 million people from dozens of countries this year entered the U.S. green-card lottery.
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Who is the fairest Republican of them all? and more
feature Ten different potential Republican presidential candidates have at some point finished first in polls of GOP voters this year.
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Iraq's war widows, and more
feature After two decades of war and civil conflict, about 1.5 million Iraqi women are widows, a new study says.
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Fauja Singh, age 100, runs a marathon, and more
feature Singh took up running at age 89 after his wife and child died.
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Bin Laden’s bad health, and more
feature The medicines recovered from Osama bin Laden’s compound show he no longer suffered from kidney disease, but he did have drugs for other ailments.
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Income for the top 1 percent soars, and more
feature Incomes for the top 1 percent soared 275 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars between 1979 and 2007.
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The $26,364 threshold, and more
feature In 2010, half of all U.S. workers earned less than $26,364.
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Identifying the remains of 9/11 victims, and more
feature Ten years later, no remains from 1,121 of the people who died at the World Trade Center have ever been identified.
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China's unlikely export, and more
feature Most garlic sold in the U.S. now comes from China.
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Republicans capture the white vote in congressional elections, and more
feature In the congressional elections, 60 percent of white voters cast their ballots for Republicans, and just 37 percent voted for Democrats.
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The looming government "shut down," and more
feature If Congress doesn’t extend the federal debt ceiling and the government is “shut down,” the government won’t actually shut down.
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