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    College Enrollment at All-Time High

    Roughly four-in-ten young adults are enrolled in either a two- or four-year college, the highest level of enrollment ever.

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    The Remarrying Kind

    About one-in-ten ever-married adults in Arkansas and Oklahoma have had three or more spouses.

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    Veterans Day

    While Americans across the country honor the nation’s veterans today, most do not think the government gives enough support to soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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    The Army Base Massacre Dominates the Week

    The U.S. unemployment rate jumped, the Afghan runoff election was cancelled and the House of Representatives passed a health care bill last week. But those stories all took a back seat to coverage of the killing spree at Fort Hood Texas, which quickly became a story about Islam and possibly, terrorism.

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    Religious Landscape Survey Data Release

    Data files from the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, including interviews with a representative sample of more than 35,000 U.S. adults, are now available to the public for further study and analysis.

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    Tell the FDA the whole story, please

    The FDA should hear about the reality of the information marketplace, which is increasingly mobile and social, not about the past failings of consumers to check the source and date of health information online.

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    Swine Flu Interest Outpaces Coverage

    Summary of Findings For the second week in a row, Americans followed news about the swine flu and its vaccine more closely than any other news story – with public interest outpacing the amount of national media coverage devoted to the story. About three-in-ten (29%) name reports about the fast-spreading flu and its vaccine as […]