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    Few Americans trust Pakistan

    Only 10% of Americans believe the U.S. can trust Pakistan a great deal or a fair amount.

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    3. Sources of Remittances to Latin America

    The United States is the single largest source of remittances to Spanish-speaking Latin America, accounting for $41 billion of the $52.9 billion in money sent home by migrants in 2012. Funds transferred to Latin America account for a third (33%) of remittances from the U.S., according to World Bank data analyzed by the Pew Research […]

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    Section 6: Views of Council on Foreign Relations Members

    Members of the Council on Foreign Relations, like the general public, believe that the U.S. global power has declined; 62% say the United States plays a less powerful and important role than it did a decade ago. Four years ago, 44% said the United States had become less powerful and in 2001, just before 9/11, […]

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    References

    Aud, Susan, William Hussar, Grace Kena, Frank Johnson, and Erin Roth. 2012. National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences. The Condition of Education 2012. NCES 2012-045. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, May. Bozick, Robert, and Erich Lauff. 2007. Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A First Look at the Initial Postsecondary Experiences […]

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    The odds that you will give birth to a boy or girl depend on where in the world you live

    Research over hundreds of years has consistently found that boys naturally outnumber girls at birth. The speculation is that this is nature’s way of countering the relatively high mortality rates of males, and creating more of a gender balance in the population. While historically, there have been about 105 boys born for every 100 girls […]

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    Part 4: Social networking sites, Cell Phones, Dating, and Relationships

    The technological landscape has changed dramatically since we first studied dating and relationships in the fall of 2005. At the time we conducted our first survey on this topic, the release of the iPhone was still two years in the future, Facebook was in the process of expanding from college campuses to high schools, and […]

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    Is divorce contagious?

    A new study suggests that the divorce of a friend or close relative dramatically increases the chances that you too will divorce.