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Jersey Shore captures 8.45 million, and more
feature The season premiere of MTV’s Jersey Shore was viewed by 8.45 million people, more than the average audiences of network news broadcasts on ABC and CBS.
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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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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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$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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jailing the mentally ill, and more
feature American prisons have replaced state mental hospitals as a place to warehouse the mentally ill.
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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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College seniors plan to move back with parents, and more
feature Many college senior plan to move back home with their parents after graduation.
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