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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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Meat consumption drops, and more
feature The Department of Agriculture has found that meat consumption in the U.S. has dropped 12.2 percent over the past five years.
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Prime-time TV gets racier, and more
feature The networks’ new trick is to show fully naked characters with their breasts, buttocks, and/or genitals pixelated.
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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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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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$900 billion in tax breaks, and more
feature The 10 biggest tax breaks will save American taxpayers more than $900 billion this year.
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The cost of higher gas prices, and more
feature Every one-penny rise in the cost of a gallon of gas takes $1 billion of consumer spending away from other goods in the course of a year.
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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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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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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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Wal-Mart's jump in midnight sales, and more
feature Wal-Mart says its stores see a jump in midnight sales on the first of each month, when cash-strapped shoppers receive their monthly government benefits.
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Very rich and very poor in California, and more
feature California is home to 111 billionaires, yet it also suffers the highest poverty rate in the country.
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Mass shootings and mental health, and more
feature The mental health of the killer has not been an issue in most of the mass shootings that have occurred since 2009.
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Wall Street under Obama and Bush, and more
feature Wall Street securities firms have made more money under the Obama administration than the Bush administration.
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