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Food stamp benefits soar, and more
feature The government spent $74.6 billion on food stamp benefits last year, up from $30.4 billion in 2007.
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Suicides surpass motor vehicle deaths, and more
feature More Americans now take their own lives each year—about 37,000—than die in car crashes, a new study has found.
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Good governance in Africa, and more
feature This year’s winner of the $5 million Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa is...nobody.
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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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Secessionists petition the White House, and more
feature Americans from at least 20 states have petitioned the White House since Election Day to let their state secede from the union.
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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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Public pension funds lost $1 trillion in market crash, and more
feature Public pension funds set up for retiring teachers, police, and other municipal workers lost $1 trillion in the recent market crash.
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Congressional travels during the August recess, and more
feature Several members of Congress are traveling abroad during the August recess so they can "discuss" and "investigate" crucial issues with their foreign peers.
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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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People with ordinary sore throats and fevers flood ERs
feature People with garden-variety sore throats and fevers are flooding emergency rooms nationwide, convinced that they have the swine flu.
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Obama's staff picks, and more
feature Barack Obama has filled more top positions for his administration than had either Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, or Ronald Reagan at a similar point in their own transitions.
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No profits for YouTube, and more
feature YouTube will lose $470 million this year, even though visitors to the site will download about 75 billion videos.
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Digital information's explosive growth, and more
feature In 2006, the world produced 161 “exabytes” of digital information—3 million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever
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Reducing the federal budget by 0.0029%, and more
feature The $100 million President Obama has ordered cut from his $3.5 trillion budget represents a reduction of 0.0029 percent.
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