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    Focus Shifts Overseas as Economic News Recedes

    Coverage of the financial meltdown dropped to its lowest level in months last week as Somali pirates, a trip to Turkey, a deadly earthquake and a defiant missile launch dominated the news agenda. Is it a trend or an anomaly?

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    Cell-Only Youth

    About a third of Americans ages 18 to 29 have only a wireless phone.

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    God’s Gender Gap

    Women are more religious than men on a variety of measures.

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    I Want To Go Where It’s Warm

    Americans prefer a hotter place to live over one with a colder climate by nearly a two-to-one margin.

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    Reluctant Suffragettes

    Not until 60 years after passage of the 19th Amendment did women finally turn out in equal voting proportion to their male compatriots. What took them so long?