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...other words, economic woes that have long plagued those at the lower fringes of the American middle class are now hitting people near the heart of it (the median household income was $50,233 in 2007, according to the latest data from the Census Bureau). And they're hitting fast...
...planetary census Kepler takes will be very important for understanding the frequency of Earth-sized planets in our galaxy," says Jon Morse, director of NASA's astrophysics division...
...good thing about a census like this one is that even a few sightings can tell you a lot. Spot a handful of Earth-like planets among 100,000 stars, then factor up to 70 sextillion, and you've got whole lot of warm, cozy worlds potentially cooking up a whole lot of life. On one of those worlds, someone may even be looking back as our own planet passes in front of the porch light...
...listed several examples. It wasn't just volcano-monitoring. It was $300 million in new cars, a billion dollars for the Census--the list goes on and on. Here's my point: Why were they in a temporary, targeted stimulus bill? Somebody's going to have to explain to me how these items were critical to saving our economy...
Fire is one of the leading causes of death among young women in India - but you wouldn't know it by looking at government statistics. Or so says a study published in the British medical journal The Lancet. By examining census figures, death certificates from urban hospitals and "verbal autopsy" reports from rural communities, three researchers from Cambridge, Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University estimated that more than 100,000 women were killed by fires in a single year - more than six times the number reported by police. The study also found that young women were three times as likely...