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    Oregon’s ’Death with Dignity’ Law: 10 Years Later

    Washington, D.C. Ten years have passed since Oregon became the first state in the nation to authorize doctors to assist terminally ill patients in voluntarily ending their lives. Although some predicted the legalization of physician-assisted suicide (also called physician aid in dying) in other states, similar measures have since been defeated in California, Hawaii and […]

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    Part 2. Searching for Answers Online

    E-patients with chronic conditions are likely to be searching for answers to their own health questions. As in past surveys, we asked respondents to think about the last time they went online for health or medical information, hoping to capture a portrait of a typical health search.[8.numoffset=”8″ “Online Health Search 2006” (Pew Internet & American […]

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    New Twist in Immigration Fight is Big News

    It took Presidential intervention, but the changing fortunes of the controversial immigration reform legislation was the leading story last week. Still, U.S. domestic politics were almost overshadowed violence in the Mideast. And why did the ending of a cable series make the nightly news?

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    Religious Literacy: What Every American Should Know

    Pew Forum Faith Angle Conference Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December 2007 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Stephen Prothero, chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University, discussed the issue of religious illiteracy in the […]

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    Appendix A: Theories on Naturalization

    There is no one explanation that covers every immigrant’s decision to naturalize, but some broad theories suggest why citizenship rates rise and fall. Country of birth has long been a significant predictor of whether an immigrant will naturalize. Immigrants are more likely to return to home countries that are geographically close to the U.S. They […]

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    States Say No to Teen Tanning

    Spurred by worries about skin cancer, Utah and Virginia have joined 25 other states in limiting underage access to bronzing beds

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    Hey, Big Spenders!

    That’s the (negative) percentage of their after-tax income that Americans saved last year — the lowest savings rate since 1933 when, in the depths of the Great Depression, one in four workers were jobless.

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    After Gonzales v. Carhart : The Future of Abortion Jurisprudence

    Washington, D.C. On April 18, 2007, the Supreme Court handed down a major ruling on abortion rights, upholding the constitutionality of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. The 5-4 decision in the case, Gonzales v. Carhart, upheld for the first time a law that bans a specific abortion method, and it did so even though […]

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    Section III: Candidate Traits and the ’08 Campaign Military service, being a Christian, and political experience lead the list of traits that Americans find most appealing in a presidential candidate. But even more Americans say they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who is an atheist or a political newcomer, and nearly […]

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    Mormonism and Politics: Are They Compatible?

    Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in May 2007 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Richard Bushman, an emeritus professor at Columbia University and author of several books about Mormon history, discussed the relationship between The Church of Jesus […]