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    Neighbors Online

    While nearly half of Americans still talk face-to-face with their neighbors, one in five now use digital tools to communicate with neighbors and monitor community developments.

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    News Media Trusted For Information On Oil Leak

    Summary of Findings The public expresses far more trust in the news media for information about the Gulf oil leak than it does in either the federal government or BP. Fully 67% say they have a lot (20%) or some trust (47%) in information on the oil leak coming from news organizations. That compares with […]

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    India’s Census and the Caste Question

    Government leaders in India have agreed that the nation’s 2011 census could include a tally of castes, the complex structure of traditional social classes that last were officially measured in 1931. Those caste numbers are the basis of quotas for government employment and university enrollment, and help determine spending on social welfare programs. A council […]

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    Neighbors Online

    One in five Americans use digital tools to communicate with neighbors and monitor community developments.

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    Gulf Disaster Again Dominates the News

    With the oil still gushing, BP making new efforts to stanch the spill and the Obama Administration taking a more aggressive line toward the energy company, the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico accounted for a third of last week’s news coverage. No other story came close although a deadly encounter on a boat headed for the Gaza Strip finished as the No. 2 subject.

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    Reconnecting Online

    Four-in-ten internet users have been contacted by someone from their past who found them online.

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    Grumpy Old Partisans

    Older Republicans are more likely than their younger co-partisans to oppose candidates who compromise and to support those without elected experience.

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    Tough Votes, Mixed Support

    Americans are less likely to vote for a candidate who supported TARP, but split on health care reform supporters.

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    The Internet: Comedy Central

    Half of online adults watch comedy videos online, making them the most-watched type of online video.

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    Video Uploaders

    Among internet users, 14% have uploaded a video to the internet.