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    Oil Spill Seen As Ecological Disaster

    Americans are critical of the government’s response to the environmental disaster in the Gulf, but even more so of BP. Support for offshore oil drilling is down, though Republican opinion is unchanged.

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    National Day of Prayer

    Nearly six-in-ten adults in the U.S. say they pray at least once a day.

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    The Semantic Web

    Technology experts and stakeholders are divided over whether a world in which software agents carry out sophisticated tasks for users is on the immediate horizon.

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    United We Stand … on Technology

    Americans are widely dissatisfied not only with government but with most major institutions. One notable exception: the technology industry.

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    Text Me

    One in three teens sends more than 100 text messages a day, or 3,000 texts a month.

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    Text Message Received

    Over half of all teens send text messages to their friends daily.

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    Teen Girls Text More than Boys

    Teenage girls typically send and receive more than twice the texts (80 a day) as do boys (30 a day).

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    Tea Party Lemons?

    When asked to give a one-word impression of the Tea Party movement, a plurality of respondents offered a negative word.

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    Papal Problem

    Seven-in-ten Americans say Pope Benedict has done a poor (44%) or only fair (24%) job in addressing the child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.

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