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    Are our relationships defined by our online habits?

    Everyone has a friend or two who takes that much longer to respond to emails because they just don’t ever check their accounts, who don’t want to join social networks and who never pop up on IM and gmail-chat. What happens when you fall in love w…

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    Clinton Seen as ’Tough’ and ’Smart’ — Giuliani as ’Energetic’

    Summary of Findings The public is no more engaged by the presidential campaign than it was in the spring, and the candidates’ images remain somewhat blurry. But the personal strengths of several leading candidates are beginning to come into focus for voters. Views of Hillary Clinton are more sharply drawn than those of other leading […]

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    The Oprah Factor and Campaign 2008

    Summary of Findings Hillary Clinton continues to lead Barack Obama by a wide margin in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. But Obama has something Clinton doesn’t have — the support of Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey endorsed Obama in May of this year and recently held a fundraiser for him at her Malibu, Calif. home. […]

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    War of Words Over War in Iraq

    General David Petraeus’ appearance on Capitol Hill last week helped turn the Iraq debate into one of the biggest talk topics of the year. The general may not have changed many minds in Congress, but he provided talk hosts on both sides of the political spectrum with plenty of ammunition.

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    Much Campus Crime Goes Unreported

    Schools and colleges across the country do not report violent incidents on campus consistently or accurately — in many cases because they are not required to, according to safety experts and a new report by 27 state attorneys general.

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    Hobbyists Online

    The Internet has become America’s playground with the great majority of those online now using the web to pursue leisure-time interests from genealogy and collecting to gambling.

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    Pakistanis Confidence in Osama Bin Laden

    That’s the proportion of Pakistanis who say they have a lot or some confidence in Al Queda leader Osama bin Laden to do the right thing in world affairs — still disturbingly high, but a substantial decline from the 51% who said so just two years ago.

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    Lowest Paid Latino Immigrants

    That’s the percentage of foreign-born Latino workers in the lowest fifth of the wage distribution in 2005 — a decline from 42% in 1995.

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    Internet Users Who Watch Online Videos

    The majority of adult internet users in the U.S. (57%) report watching or downloading some type of online video content and 19% do so on a typical day.

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    Turks With Favorable View of U.S.

    That’s the tiny percentage of Turkish public who say they have a favorable opinion of the U.S. in the recent Pew Global Attitudes survey, the lowest number among the 47 countries surveyed.