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    Facebook’s Latest About-Face

    The top story on many tech news sites today is Facebook’s most recent “about-face” decision to change some of the features of their new Beacon advertising program.

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    English Usage Among Hispanics in the United States

    Nearly all Hispanic adults born in the United States of immigrant parents report they are fluent in English. By contrast, only a small minority of their parents describe themselves as skilled English speakers.

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    Immigration Takes Center Stage at GOP YouTube Debate

    In a format the public says it prefers — “regular people,” not journalists, posing the questions — immigration emerged as the hot-button issue. Were the candidates’ answers in sync with GOP voters’ opinions?

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    Journalists in Iraq – A Survey of Reporters on the Front Lines

    In a new PEJ survey, journalists reporting from Iraq say the conditions are the most dangerous they’ve ever encountered. Ninety percent say most of Baghdad remains too dangerous to visit. Nearly 60% of the news organizations have had at least one Iraqi staff member killed or kidnapped in the last year. The survey is of 111 journalists from 29 news organizations reporting from Iraq.

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    Tobacco Case Could Limit State Powers

    Forty state laws regulating internet tobacco sales — and many other laws governing dangerous products — are at stake in a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week.

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    Public Sees Progress in War Effort

    Summary of Findings For the first time in a long time, nearly half of Americans express positive opinions about the situation in Iraq. A growing number says the U.S. war effort is going well, while greater percentages also believe the United States is making progress in reducing the number of Iraqi casualties, defeating the insurgents […]

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    Pakistanis with Favorable View of U.S.

    That’s the small fraction of Pakistanis who say they have a favorable view of America in the latest Pew Global Attitudes poll.

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    Russians Confidence in Vladimir Putin

    That’s the large portion of the Russian public that says it has confidence in President Vladimir Putin to do the right thing in world affairs, compared with only 45% of Americans who say the same thing about President Bush.

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    Spiritual “Renewalists” in America

    That’s the percentage of Americans who are “renewalist,” a faith that emphasizes such spiritually renewing “gifts of the Holy Spirit” as speaking in tongues, divine healing and prophesying.

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    Never Gonna Make It

    That’s the number of currently employed Americans who don’t expect they will ever make enough money to have the kind of life they want.