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    Karzai’s Rank as a Foreign Newsmaker

    Afghanistan President Harmid Karzai has been much in the news lately, but he still trails far behind the top newsmaker among overseas leaders this year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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    About the Survey

    Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International among a nationwide sample of 4,013 adults, 18 years of age or older. Interviews were conducted in two waves, the first from August 11-17, 2009 (Survey A) and the second from August 20-27, 2009 (Survey B). […]

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    Social and Traditional Media Agree: Botched Terror Attack Is Big News

    The failed terror attack on NWA Flight 253 led the news on blogs, Twitter and in the mainstream press last week. The online community debated everything from who to blame for the close call to the impact on airline travel. On YouTube, a spectator’s view of a Christmas Eve attack on Pope Benedict XVI generated the most views.

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    Acknowledgments

    We are grateful to John Horrigan (Pew), Barry Wellman (University of Toronto), and Evans Witt (Princeton Survey Research Associates International), who assisted in the design and administration of the project survey. We would also like to acknowledge the technical assistance of Chul-Joo Lee (The Ohio State University) and the support of the Annenberg School for […]

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    Social Isolation and New Technology

    A new study challenges previous research and commonplace fears about the harmful social impact of internet and cell phone use.

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    The Millennials

    Who are they? How are they different from –and similar to — their parents? How is their moment in history shaping them? And how might they, in turn, reshape America in the decades ahead?

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    Section 8: Views of Free Trade

    Council on Foreign Relations members continue to express much stronger support for free trade agreements than does the general public. Nearly nine-in-ten (88%) CFR members say that free trade agreements like NAFTA and the policies of the World Trade Organization have been a good thing for the United States; just 5% say they have been […]

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    Methodology for Muslim Population Estimates

    The Pew Forum’s Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Muslim Population seeks to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive demographic estimate of the number of Muslims in the 232 countries and territories for which the United Nations Population Division provides general population estimates.1 In order to […]