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    States Seek to Dampen Text Book Sticker Shock

    Returning college students may get some pocketbook relief at campus bookstores as states and university officials take aim at some publisher and faculty practices blamed for raising prices.

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    Along the Iraq-Vietnam Parallel

    To many observers the most obvious parallel between the two conflicts is that, after early public support, disillusionment mounted as hostilities dragged on. But while the overall trajectory is similar, an important political difference distinguishes public attitudes toward the two wars.

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    Michael Vick Case Draws Large Audience

    Summary of Findings Michael Vick’s legal troubles attracted a large news audience last week. One-in-four Americans followed the Vick story very closely and 18% said it was the single news story they followed more closely than any other. Overall, the public believes Vick, the Atlanta Falcons quarterback, has been treated fairly by the press, but […]

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    Internet Cafes in Rural China

    In China, the internet cafe has overtaken the workplace as the second most popular place after their own homes for internet users to go online. Most of the increase in internet café use is in rural areas.

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    Evangelical Approval of President Bush

    That was President Bush’s approval rating among white evangelicals in a recent survey, far higher than among the electorate as a whole but considerably lower than in earlier years.

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    Say Children Key to Marriage

    That’s the percent of Americans who now say that children are very important for a marriage to succeed, down from 65% who said so in 1990.