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    Bloggers Grade Obama, Revolt over Facebook

    The most prominent narrative in social media online last week shifted from the stimulus bill to a critique of Obama’s first month in office. While the economic crisis was still a large topic, a policy change at Facebook created an uproar that forced the site to then change course.

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    The Stronger Sex — Spiritually Speaking

    March is Women’s History Month. A new analysis of data from the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, finds that women are more religious than men on a variety of measures. Data: Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted in 2007, released in 2008.

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    Buy American

    ‘Buy American’ provisions are supported by two-thirds of the public, and across party lines.

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    Elderly Observant Catholics

    Many of the Catholics who will be visiting their churches today, Ash Wednesday, to have their foreheads marked with ashen crosses, will be over age 65, a reflection of the fact that older Catholics are considerably more likely than their younger co-religionists to say they attend worship services regularly.

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    Social Segregation

    While most Americans say they have friends of a different race, pluralities of whites, blacks and Hispanics say they only have a few.

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    Staying Put

    Most adults (57%) have not lived outside their current home state in the U.S.

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    An Inconvenient Truth

    The percentage of Americans calling environmental protection a top priority this year declined by 15 percentage points from last January.