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    Music, interrupted

    International fans of Pandora’s streaming online music service will have to deal with a rude awakening this week when the company is forced to disable accounts based outside of the U.S. due to licensing issues.

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    International Religious Freedom: Religion and International Diplomacy

    Pew Research Center Ten years ago, the U.S. Congress launched a debate on U.S. international religious freedom policy that ultimately resulted in the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. Foreign policy actors continue to debate how religious freedom – and religion itself – should be factored into U.S. foreign policy. Has the State Department interpreted […]

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    Think the Iraq Troop Surge Is Working

    That’s the proportion of the public that thinks that so far the U.S. troop surge is making things better in Iraq; a slightly larger number, 34%, think it will do so in the long run. By contrast, a 46%-plurality thinks it is not having any effect and 20% see it making things worse.

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    Say Government Fails to Give Enough Support to Returning Troops

    That’s the share of the U.S. public who say the U.S. government does not give enough support to the soldiers who have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; but a narrow majority (51%) believes the American people give sufficient support.

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    Daily Prayer Important

    That’s the portion of the adult U.S. population who completely agree that prayer is an important part of their daily life — down from a high of 55% in 1999.

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    See AIDs as God’s Punishment for Immorality

    That’s the proportion of the public that now agrees with the statement that “AIDS might be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behavior.” When this question was first asked in 1987, public opinion was divided, with 43% agreeing and 47% disagreeing.

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    Iraq War, with Subplots, Dominates the News

    A GOP debate, a Royal visit, Murdoch’s media move, and a Washington sex scandal all generated their fair share of news coverage last week. But it’s still the battle over Baghdad—with a cast of players that last week included George Tenet and Condoleezza Rice—that captured most of the media’s attention and energy.

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    Can Secular Democracy Survive in Turkey?

    by Robert Ruby, Senior Editor, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life By nominating an observant Muslim for the Turkish presidency, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan inadvertently highlighted deep-rooted tensions about the role of religion in the nation’s political life. These tensions were already evident in recent Pew Global Attitudes surveys that found growing doubts […]