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    The Biology Wars: The Religion, Science and Education Controversy

    Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Florida, in December 2005 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker Edward J. Larson, Talmadge Chair of Law and Russell Professor of American History at the University of Georgia, discussed the history of […]

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    Topline

    Female Sources in the News–by Outlet       Outlet     Newspapers Net. Even. PBS NewsHour Net. Morn. Cable Internet Total Female Source # 0 Count 3871 489 228 537 2686 1214 9025 % 58.7% 72.6% 82.9% 65.8% 81.5% 63.8% 66.6% 1 Count 1437 108 30 178 502 400 2655 % 21.8% 16.0% 10.9% […]

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    Picture This

    “Pictorial passwords” make logging in a bit like a personal concentration game.

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    Innovative Study Suggests Where Blogs Fit into National Politics

    NEW YORK, May 16, 2005 – Experimental research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project and BuzzMetrics suggests that political bloggers can make an impact on politics, but they often follow the lead of politicians and journalists. A preliminary report released today, entitled “Buzz, Blogs and Beyond: The Internet and the National Discourse in […]

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    Virtual VOA

    There is a new online cat-and-mouse game between the United States and China, the two internet superpowers.

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    The Coming Religious Wars? Demographics and Conflict in Islam and Christianity

    Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Council on Foreign Relations co-hosted a roundtable to explore geopolitical implications of the growth, distribution and migration of Muslim and Christian populations. Population momentum – rapid growth due to previously high fertility rates – is a critical issue in the […]

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    III. Economic Context

    What are the economic circumstances that can produce a very rapid influx of young foreign-born Latino males as described above? Not surprisingly, this kind of population growth coincided with a period of robust economic growth in the South. The new settlement areas of the South stand out both because they have experienced very rapid growth […]

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    Part 1. The legal battle over protecting youth online

    A court challenge to the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) contends that efforts to protect children from potentially harmful online content must also respect adults’ rights to privacy and free speech. Parents, educators, technologists, and policymakers have wrestled with the challenge of keeping children safe from objectionable online content since the internet became both a […]