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    Online Worlds and Screen Time

    Social networks for younger kids – Are online communities and avatar-based social worlds encouraging obesity?

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    With Petraeus as Star, Iraq Debate has its Biggest Week

    The general’s appearance before Congress last week was widely expected to be a pivot point in the political brawl over Iraq war policy. The media swarmed, but the story they told may help explain why David Petraeus’s testimony seemed, for now, to cement the status quo.

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    Case the Candidates for ’08

    The Pew Forum database covers presidential contenders’ positions on issues of special religious significance as well as their stands on other domestic and foreign policies.

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    Favor Sex Education in Public Schools

    That’s the large percentage of American adults who favor allowing public schools to provide students with birth control information; only 18% oppose such instruction.

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    Screens Along the Silk Road

    In my ongoing quest to visit as many internet cafes in China as possible, I was on the lookout last week during our visit to Urumqi (aka: Wulumuqi), a city of about 3 million along the Silk Road in the northwest corner of China.

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    States with Electronics Recycling Programs

    That’s the number of states, including 5 whose legislatures acted this year, that now have laws aiming to curb the threat of toxic waste created by the proliferation of discarded computer gear and other digital junk.

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    British With Favorable View of U.S.

    That’s the proportion of the British public who say they have a favorable opinion of the U.S. in the recent Pew Global Attitudes survey, a new low in favorable attitudes toward America from its closest European ally.

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    A Nation of “Haves” and “Have-Nots”?

    Over the past two decades, the number of Americans who see the country as divided along economic lines has increased sharply, and twice as many people now see themselves among the society’s “have-nots.”