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    Being Good for Goodness’ Sake?

    This holiday season, the American Humanist Association has launched a campaign featuring ads on Washington, D.C., buses that proclaim, “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake.” But a 2007 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project found that a majority of Americans say it is necessary to believe in […]

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    Tattooed Gen Nexters

    That’s the proportion of young Americans (ages 18-25) of both sexes who have had themselves tatooed. About half in this age group have done at least one of the following: had a tatoo, dyed their hair an untraditional color or had their bodies pierced in a place other than their ear lobe.

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    Podcasts Proliferate

    About one-in-five internet users have downloaded a podcast.

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    News To You

    About a quarter of news consumers are Integrators, mixing traditional and online sources of media.

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    Hajj to Mecca

    Six-in-ten American Muslims say making a pilgrimage to Mecca is very important.

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    Necessary Cars

    Detroit may take some comfort from the fact that nine out of ten (91%) Americans see their cars as a necessity, essentially the same number who said so a decade earlier (93%).

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    The News Gets Grimmer at Home and Abroad

    Barack Obama made headlines with some major appointments last week. But the bigger story was the deepening crises the new administration will face—a cratering economy domestically and a set of global challenges highlighted by the Mumbai terror attack.