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The cost of health care, and more
feature America spent $2.6 trillion on health care last year.
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The cost of the financial crisis, and more
feature The financial crisis may cost the U.S. almost $13 trillion.
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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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The fate of NASA's moon rocks, and more
feature Of nearly 400 moon rocks given to state and world leaders after the Apollo 11 and 17 missions, almost 200 have been lost, destroyed, or stolen.
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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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Aging inmates and health-care costs, and more
feature The increasing age of the nation’s inmates is causing steep rises in health-care costs for prison systems.
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Out-of-wedlock births climb, and more
feature More than half of births to American women under the age of 30 now occur outside of marriage.
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The world’s richest 1 percent, and more
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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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Robots on the battlefield, and more
feature The U.S. military has deployed about 3,500 robots to search for bombs or enemy soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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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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Understanding the tax code, and more
feature In the course of the last decade, there have been 4,428 changes to the federal tax code, or more than one per day.
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A warm start to the year, and more
feature The U.S. just experienced the warmest start to a year since records began, in 1895.
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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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