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A demographic turning point, and more
feature For the first time in U.S. history, there were more recorded deaths than births among white Americans in 2012.
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Smartphone collisions, and more
feature Fifty-three percent of all adult mobile-phone owners have been banged into because someone was peering at their smartphone.
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Abortion rate falls to new low, and more
feature The U.S. abortion rate has fallen to its lowest level since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
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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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Fewer households own guns, and more
feature The proportion of U.S. households in which a gun is present has fallen from about 50 percent in the 1970s to 34 percent last year.
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Disillusioned Floridans pack up, and more
feature Florida lost 58,000 residents over the past year, the first time in a century that it has lost population.
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Population decline in rural counties, and more
feature About 46 percent of rural counties in the U.S. lost population over the last decade.
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Partisan commencement speeches?, and more
feature No Republican or conservative has been invited to make the commencement speech this year at any of the 50 top U.S. liberal arts colleges.
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Obama vetoes aid to Syrian rebels, and more
feature President Obama nixed a plan to arm the Syrian rebels in 2012.
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Big Oil's big subsidies, and more
feature Oil production is among the most heavily subsidized businesses. BP, for example, was getting a tax deduction of $225,000 a day for renting the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
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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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Profession and voting preference, and more
feature People who work in industries that skew male are much more likely to support Mitt Romney in this election.
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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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A record amount of carbon dioxide, and more
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