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    Who Do That Voodoo at Harvard?

    Psychologists convince test subjects at the famed university that they may have put a Voodoo hex on a disagreeable man. Also, new studies on marriage and Social Security, birth order and dirty diapers.

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    The Future of the Internet

    A survey of internet leaders, activists, and analysts shows that a majority agree with predictions that by 2020 …

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    Pragmatic Americans Liberal and Conservative on Social Issues

    Summary of Findings Americans cannot be easily characterized as conservative or liberal on today’s most pressing social questions. The public’s point of view varies from issue to issue. They are conservative in opposing gay marriage and gay adoption, liberal in favoring embryonic stem cell research and a little of both on abortion. Along with favoring […]

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    Pragmatic Americans Liberal and Conservative on Social Issues

    Navigate this Report Summary of Findings Abortion Opinions Stable Most Don’t Doubt Their Opinion on Abortion Majorities Continue to Support Stem Cell Research Continued Opposition to Gay Marriage Among Gay Marriage Supporters, Division over How Best to Proceed Catholics, Mainline Protestants Support Civil Unions Growing Number See Homosexuality as Innate, Unchangeable Trait Opinion on Pharmaceutical […]

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    Do the Democrats Have a ’God Problem’?

    by Gregory A. Smith, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and Peyton M. Craighill, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press In the immediate aftermath of George W. Bush’s 2004 victory over John Kerry, many journalists and other political observers declared the election to have been decided, in large part, on the […]

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