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Fully 36% of adult internet users say they have used a search engine to find information about someone from their past.

One-third of those who say they were raised Catholic no longer describe themselves as Catholic, which means that roughly 10% of all Americans are former Catholics.

More than four in ten Americans (43%) say that the use of torture can be justified to gain key information sometimes (31%) or often (12%).

Just 18% of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the country today, down from 22% in March and 27% at the end of 2007. This represents a new low in 20 years of Pew Research Center polling.