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    A Healthy America

    Susannah Fox spoke at “A Healthy America” at the Institute of Medicine.

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    Cell Internet Use 2013

    57% of American adults use their cell phone to go online. 21% of cell phone owners say they mostly access the internet using their phone.

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    Planned Twitter IPO follows years of user growth

    Twitter’s announcement on Sept. 12 that it planned to go public with an initial public offering follows seven years of growth in the user of the social media platform.

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    Syria’s Neighbors Worry about Extremism, Too

    The prospect of a U.S. military strike on Syria has focused new attention on the role and influence of Islamic extremist groups – including Jabhat al-Nusra, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and jihadists from Chechnya, Pakistan and other countries – opposing the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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    What surveys say about worship attendance – and why some stay home

    This Sunday is “National Back to Church Sunday,” a coordinated effort by more than 20,000 churches of various Christian denominations to reach out to people who rarely attend worship services. The percentage of Americans who say they “seldom” or “never” attend religious services (aside from weddings and funerals) has risen modestly in the past decade. […]

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    Five Years after Market Crash, U.S. Economy Seen as ‘No More Secure’

    Overview Five years after the U.S. economy faced its most serious crisis since the Great Depression, a majority of Americans (63%) say the nation’s economic system is no more secure today than it was before the 2008 market crash. Just a third (33%) think the system is more secure now than it was then. Large […]

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    Shift in Public Support for UN-backed Military Action

    While UN approval might provide legal justification for a military strike against Syria, it is not at all clear that it would afford the American government and its European allies with political cover at home.