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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.

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    Job Finding is Hard

    That’s the number of Americans who recently said it was difficult to find a job in their community — a proportion that rises to 55% when the qualifier “good job” is added to the question.

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    Better Wages for Latino Immigrants

    That’s the proportion of foreign-born Latino workers in the lowest fifth of the wage distribution, a significant decline from the 42% who were low wage workers a decade earlier.

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    The V-Word Heats Up the Iraq Debate

    Two different destructive storms struck the continent and even in the dog days of summer, the presidential race continued to attract significant media interest. But several factors—an intelligence report, a senatorial statement, and a presidential analogy—all combined to re-ignite the debate over U.S. policy in Iraq.

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    How the Public Resolves Conflicts Between Faith and Science

    Polls show that Americans have a healthy respect for science. But what happens when scientific findings conflict with religious beliefs? In the case of evolution, religious people, who make up a majority of Americans, rely primarily on their faith for answers.