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    Study: Religious people more likely to reject the idea that life has no purpose

    Numerous studies have shown that people who are religious are happier in life. Now, a new study has found those who believe in God with no doubts are more likely to strongly disagree with the idea that life does not have meaning. Stephen Cranney of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania recently […]

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    57% of Americans Go Online With Their Cellphone

    With 91% of all Americans now owning a cell phone, 57% of all American adults are cell internet users. The proportion of cell owners who use their phone to go online has doubled since 2009.

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    What Water’s Edge?

    It is not clear that such high-minded bipartisanship has ever driven Americans’ views on foreign policy. What is notable today, however, is the degree of such partisanship and the accelerating pace of this polarization on key international policy issues.

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    As Health Care Law Proceeds, Opposition and Uncertainty Persist

    Survey Report As a key step in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act approaches, public views of the 2010 health care law are as negative as ever, and many are unaware of the elements of the law that will be going into place. While opposition to the law runs deep, critics are divided over whether […]

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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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    A Healthy America

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

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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.