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    College Enrollment at All-Time High

    Roughly four-in-ten young adults are enrolled in either a two- or four-year college, the highest level of enrollment ever.

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    Twitter Update

    About one-in-five internet users now say they use Twitter or another similar service, up from 11% in April.

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    Chilling Numbers

    The percentage of Americans who believe there is solid evidence supporting global warming has fallen from 71% in April 2008 to 57% today.

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    The Army Base Massacre Dominates the Week

    The U.S. unemployment rate jumped, the Afghan runoff election was cancelled and the House of Representatives passed a health care bill last week. But those stories all took a back seat to coverage of the killing spree at Fort Hood Texas, which quickly became a story about Islam and possibly, terrorism.

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    Religious Landscape Survey Data Release

    Data files from the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, including interviews with a representative sample of more than 35,000 U.S. adults, are now available to the public for further study and analysis.

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    Tell the FDA the whole story, please

    The FDA should hear about the reality of the information marketplace, which is increasingly mobile and social, not about the past failings of consumers to check the source and date of health information online.