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    Pakistanis Seeing U.S. as a Threat

    That’s the number of Pakistanis who say they are very or somewhat worried that the US could become a military threat to their country.

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    Trade Makes Strange Bedfellows

    That’s the percent of conservative Republicans who think that free trade agreements have, on the whole, been a bad thing for the United States — a view held by essentially the same percentage (32%) of liberal Democrats.

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    Speaking Only Spanish at Home

    More than half of foreign-born Hispanics (52%) report that they speak only Spanish at home.

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    Kenya Alone Says U.S. Acts to Reduce Global Inequality

    Kenya is the sole country, among the 47 covered by the latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey, in which a majority (55%) says that U.S. policies lessen the gap between rich and poor countries. The perception that American policies increase the gap between rich and poor countries prevails in most of the countries covered by the survey.

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    Chavez’s Unpopularity in Latin America

    Large majorities in many of Venzuela’s Latin American neighbors say they have little or no confidence in Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, who suffered a substantial setback in last Sunday’s elections in his own country.

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    Fewer Parents Say Internet Good for Their Teenagers

    While a majority (59%) of parents with online teens still believe the internet is a beneficial factor in their children’s lives, the number of parents who see the internet as a good thing for their children has declined since 2004.

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    Online Teens Contacted by Strangers

    About a third of teenagers who access the internet say they have been contacted by someone unknown to them or to their friends; but few (7%) view the contact as threatening.

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    U.S. Pentecostals Witnessing Miracles

    That’s the percentage of American pentecostals who say they have witnessed or experienced a divine healing of an illness or injury.

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    The Oprah Factor

    Six-in-ten Americans expect that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama will help him in his presidential campaign, although only 15% say that Oprah’s endorsement of a generic presidential candidate would influence their own vote.

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    Venezuelans Who Like U.S.-Style Democracy

    Only four-in-ten Venezuelans, who will go to the polls in a key election this Sunday, told the most recent Global Attitudes Survey that they “like American ideas about democracy,” a sharp decline from the 67% who said so in 2002.