UK: The Office for National Statistics (ONS) will collect data on sexual identity on all its major continuous surveys from January 2009. " Government pen-pushers will demand to know the bedroom habits...
Anyone know what Japan's average work week is? There's 24 hours in a day ... hmm ..."Japan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, thanks, health experts say, to an overworked populace too tired to...
"The networks will follow strict rules Tuesday on projecting election results, examining not only the data from exit polls but actual vote tabulation and turnout data. NBC — which keeps its decision desk isolated from the calls made by competing networks — will call a...
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"Americans agree: Our health-care system needs a serious overhaul. A number of recent surveys, including one by Harris Interactive and another by the Commonwealth Fund, show that over 80 percent of Americans...
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"New polls by Quinnipiac/WaPo/WSJ find Obama with small leads in the battleground states of Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. All surveys were conducted September 14-21 with margins of error of +/-2.6% - 2.7%: Colorado Obama 49 (+3 vs. last poll August 24) McCain...
"The findings suggest that better treatments for the underlying conditions that cause visual impairment, along with factors linked with poor self-ratings of health and health conditions may reduce the risk of suicide, Dr. Byron L. Lam, from the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in...
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The “hotel with best service quality and most credited travel business 2007” title, selected by tourists, defined the owners after one month and a half voting from April 15 to July 1, 2007. "The “hotel with...
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UPDATE: The solar arrays deployed successfully. Engineers are now running a series of tests to check out the telescope's systems.Original story follows.And we have--another successful liftoff! This time, an...
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Indiana Poll: Obama Gains, Clinton, Obama TiedSenator Barack Obama has come back to tie with Senator Clinton in Indiana. Most Pundits had Clinton as a Clear winner in the state over the last several...
There is a new star in the sky – and it’s located in the Big Dipper! The new star is a white dwarf star that was discovered at the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas in Austin."May 2, 2008...
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Good news for parents of teenage boys and girls: a recent study suggests that young men are more motivated by a desire to form relationships than they are by sex alone."The data also suggest that teenage boys will be receptive to parental messages about the importance of...
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More than 200 incidents of violence were reported in Toronto-area schools since January 8th, 2007. If that's just the number of reported, you can bet there is way, way more of it going on under the surface. A...
It turns out that strong womyn are babes:"Busting stereotypes that peg feminists as ugly lesbians, a new study shows that having a feminist partner is linked with healthier, more romantic heterosexual relationships.
The study, published online this week in the journal Sex...
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"Officials have condemned the antics of a young motorist who is filmed accidentally flipping his car on to its roof during a dangerous stunt posted on the video-sharing website YouTube.
The mobile phone footage shows a driver skidding around a Daventry industrial estate using...
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The U.K. is cracking down on troop blogging. Will the U.S. follow?"The Ministry of Defence has introduced new guidelines to prevent military personnel talking about their experiences as members of the Armed...
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