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Estimating airstrike casualties, and more
feature Airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities could kill or injure more than 80,000 people, according to a recent study.
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A meagre session for Congress, and more
feature Congress has sent only 54 bills to President Obama so far this year, including 14 to rename post offices.
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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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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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Household gun ownership falls, and more
feature Though the number of guns sold each year keeps climbing, the percentage of Americans who own guns has been falling steadily.
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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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Virginity among the young rises, and more
feature The percentage of 15- to 24-year-olds who’ve never had sex has risen to 28 percent, up from 22 percent in 2002.
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Potter films rake in billions, and more
feature The Harry Potter movie series has earned $6.37 billion at the box office over the past decade.
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U.S. green-card lottery draws 15 million, and more
feature A record 15 million people from dozens of countries this year entered the U.S. green-card lottery.
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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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Fauja Singh, age 100, runs a marathon, and more
feature Singh took up running at age 89 after his wife and child died.
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Bin Laden’s bad health, and more
feature The medicines recovered from Osama bin Laden’s compound show he no longer suffered from kidney disease, but he did have drugs for other ailments.
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Income for the top 1 percent soars, and more
feature Incomes for the top 1 percent soared 275 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars between 1979 and 2007.
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The $26,364 threshold, and more
feature In 2010, half of all U.S. workers earned less than $26,364.
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