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Smartphone collisions, and more
feature Fifty-three percent of all adult mobile-phone owners have been banged into because someone was peering at their smartphone.
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Congress's poor record, and more
feature The 113th Congress is on course to pass less legislation than any Congress in history.
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Gender differences in employment, and more
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Gun violence in PG-13 movies, and more
feature The amount of gun violence in PG-13 movies has more than tripled since 1985.
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A first for West Point, and more
feature For the first time, two male graduates of West Point were married at the military academy’s chapel.
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State prison admissions fall, and more
feature With states decriminalizing marijuana and scaling back 1970s-era drug laws, admissions to state prisons have declined.
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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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Arctic cold kills tree insects, and more
feature This winter’s arctic temperatures have had at least one beneficial impact: They’ve killed ash borers, gypsy moths, and other tree-eating insects.
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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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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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Noted
feature As prison populations in the U.S. have swelled since the 1970s, so has the number of ex-cons. About 700,000 prisoners are released from state and federal prisons each year. Two out of three, studies say. . .
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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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