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Legally blind, Spitzer's room, Friday the 13th
feature There are some 10 million visually impaired people in the U.S., including about 1.3 million who, like David Paterson, the new governor of New York, are legally blind. Despite laws making it illegal to discriminate against the blind. . .
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Largest campaign in history, Abstinence sex-ed, 390-foot yacht
feature Barack Obama's campaign has already hired 1,400 part- and full-time workers, triple the number of John McCain’s, and is hiring more.
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Fewer miles, New Orleans tally, Nixed quarter
feature Due to soaring gas prices, Americans drove 1.4 billion fewer highway miles this April than they did in April 2007.
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Catholic schools, lobbyists, global warming ...
feature More than 1,300 Catholic schools in the U.S. have closed since 1990, most of them in big cities. . .
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More veterans, Harry Potter off best-seller list
feature The number of disabled veterans has jumped by 25 percent since 2001, to 2.9 million. With tens of thousands of Iraq war veterans coming home with such injuries as multiple amputations, brain damage, and burns, the federal government expects to be
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Consequences of war, Longer flight times
feature About 300,000 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars—18 percent of those who have served—are suffering from depression or post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a comprehensive new Rand Corp. analysis. More than hal
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Noted
feature New York City is on track to have fewer than 500 homicides this year—the lowest total since the police began keeping track back in 1963. Just 35 of the killings thus far were committed by strangers. . .
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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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Unemployment in Detroit nears 25%, and more
feature With the implosion of the auto industry, the state of Michigan has lost more than 200,000 residents and unemployment in Detroit is now at almost 25 percent.
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Sales of Jackson's albums top the charts, and more
feature In the week following Michael Jackson’s death, the three top-selling albums in the U.S. were all his.
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Too fat for the armed services, and more
feature One in five military-age Americans is too fat to join the armed services.
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Abortions and vasectomies increase
feature Planned Parenthood clinics are reporting big increases in the number of abortions and vasectomies because recession-battered couples feel they cannot afford another mouth to feed.
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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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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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