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    Mixed Role of Religion in Views on Biomedical and Food Issues

    Religious factors are at play in public views about some, though by no means all, biomedical topics. For example, there are differences between those who attend worship services regularly and those who do not when it comes to views about the appropriateness of changing a baby’s genetic makeup. But there are no such divides when […]

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    Mixed Role of Religion in Views on Biomedical and Food Issues

    Religious factors are at play in public views about some, though by no means all, biomedical topics. For example, there are differences between those who attend worship services regularly and those who do not when it comes to views about the appropriateness of changing a baby’s genetic makeup. But there are no such divides when […]

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    Americans’ faith in God may be eroding

    The vast majority of Americans still believe in God, but there are strong signs that many are less certain about this belief than in years past.

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    Chapter 3: When it is acceptable — or not — to use cellphones in public spaces

    People’s cellphone use has injected itself into public spaces. This has blurred the line between private and public as often-intimate and occasionally blustering phone conversations have now become a common part of the background noise during bus rides, grocery shopping excursions, picnics, sidewalk strolls, waits in airport terminals and many other public venues. To see […]

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    Hispanics of Puerto Rican Origin in the United States, 2013

    An estimated 5.1 million Hispanics of Puerto Rican origin resided in the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia in 2013, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.