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    Watergate Remembered In a Time of War

    Three decades later, the Washington Post’s reporting on the Watergate scandal is still spoken about with a hushed reverence as a singular journalistic achievement. The legend and mythology surrounding Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein continue to grow, even as the industry itself has changed.

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    Teens, IM and Mark Foley

    Now that the election is long past and the Mark Foley scandal is perhaps a slightly less inflammatory subject, we can address some of the inquiries that we’ve gotten about young people and instant messaging.

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    Virtual tours

    More than half of internet users have taken virtual tours — nearly doubling the number who had done so in late 2004.

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    Podcasts Proliferate

    As the array of individuals and mainstream media institutions providing podcasts has expanded rapidly — as well as the types of digital multimedia content available from the internet — so too has the audience for downloadable video, images and text.

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    Religious Groups React to the 2006 Election

    The religious divide in voting that has characterized American politics over the last several elections largely persisted in the 2006 election. But people in most religious groups say they are happy that the Democrats won.

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    Latinos and the 2006 Mid-term Election

    Widely cited findings in the national exit polls suggest Latinos tilted heavily in favor of the Democrats in the 2006 election, taking back a significant portion of the support they had granted the Republicans just two years earlier.

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    Wal-Mart Nation

    That’s the number of Americans familiar with Wal-Mart, who have a favorable opinion of the company according to a Pew survey. That high rating didn’t keep the nation’s largest retailer from suffering a 0.1% drop in same-store sales over the bellwether Thanksgiving shopping weekend, news of which led the stock market downward on Monday.

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    Success of Democrats’ Agenda

    That’s the number of Americans who say they think Democratic leaders will be successful in getting their programs passed into law — about the same level of confidence that Americans voiced about GOP legislative prospects in December 1994.