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The Church of Scientology's exalted membership, and more
feature Despite its claims of having 8 million members, only about 25,000 Americans say they belong to the Church of Scientology.
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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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A “pole tax” for the adult-entertainment business?, and more
feature With the adult-entertainment business one of the few bright spots in the economy, states and municipalities are thinking of raising taxes on dirty magazines, sex toys, and strip clubs.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Big Oil's big subsidies, and more
feature Oil production is among the most heavily subsidized businesses. BP, for example, was getting a tax deduction of $225,000 a day for renting the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
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Population decline in rural counties, and more
feature About 46 percent of rural counties in the U.S. lost population over the last decade.
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Fewer households own guns, and more
feature The proportion of U.S. households in which a gun is present has fallen from about 50 percent in the 1970s to 34 percent last year.
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Obama vetoes aid to Syrian rebels, and more
feature President Obama nixed a plan to arm the Syrian rebels in 2012.
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