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    The Pursuit of Perfection: A Conversation on the Ethics of Genetic Engineering

    3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Washington, D.C. Featuring: Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University; member, President’s Council on Bioethics; author of “The Case Against Perfection,” The Atlantic Monthly, April 2004 Responding: Lee M. Silver, Professor at Princeton University in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Woodrow Wilson School […]

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    Luis Lugo Named New Director of Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life

    Pew Charitable Trusts to Make Forum its Primary Focus for Religion Study The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced that Luis E. Lugo, director of the Religion program at the Trusts, has been named the new director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion), and confirmed that the Forum is expanding its role […]

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    Topline Results

    ePolitics 2004: A Study of the Presidential Campaign on the Internet Tables may not add up to 100 due to rounding. Front Page   All front pages ABC AOL CNN MSNBC Nat’l. Review N.Y. Times Salon USA Today Wash. Post Yahoo   (n = 60) (n = 6) (n = 6) (n = 6) (n […]

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    Part 3. Information Utility Activities

    Most Internet users have searched for answers to specific questions. 83% of users have done a search online to answer a specific question, according to our latest survey on the subject in September 2002. The number of those who have used the Internet to answer questions grew 24% from 79 million to 98 million between […]

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    Part 6. Conclusions

    Major changes in technologies of access, the maturation of Internet users, and the development of new applications and content are three likely factors that have contributed to the growth of online pursuits. Since the Pew Internet & American Life Project began its research in 2000, the applications available on the Internet have changed dramatically, the […]

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    Part 4. Financial and Transaction Activities

    Use of the Internet to research a service or product has increased significantly. 83% of Internet users have researched a product online as of December 2002. That represents growth of 52% from 64 million who had done product research online as of March 2000, to 97 million who said they had done such research as […]

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    Under God? Pledge of Allegiance Constitutionality

    10:00 – 11:30 a.m. National Press Club Washington, D.C. Speakers: Doug Laycock, Counsel of Record for 32 Christian and Jewish clergy, urging the Court to affirm the 9th Circuit’s ruling Jay Alan Sekulow, Chief Counsel, American Center for Law and Justice; Counsel of Record for United States Senators and Congressmen and the Committee to Protect […]

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    Part 5. Hobby and Entertainment Activities

    Three-quarters of Internet users have looked for information on their hobbies or interests. 77% of Internet users have searched for hobby or interest information online as of January 2002. That represents growth of 40% from 65 million who had pursued hobby information online as of March 2000, to 91 million who had done so by […]