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...Different Folks According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the French spend twice as much time enjoying meals each day as do Americans, and they get an hour more of sleep per night than do most South Koreans. The group's report used government data and Gallup polls from 18 of the OECD's member countries to examine various social indicators--from education spending and fertility rates to leisure activities and "life satisfaction...
...Paris-based group, the French spend twice as much time enjoying meals each day than most Americans, and get nearly an hour's more sleep each night than most Japanese (who averaged just 7.8 hours of shut-eye). The study, which is based on government data and Gallup polls from 18 of the OECD's member countries, includes a broad spectrum of "social indicators" - from education spending and fertility rates to adult height and "life satisfaction" - to determine how the different societies stack up. (See pictures of Paris expanding...
Someone at technology news site, Cnet, came up with the clever idea of running a poll to learn the age of people who use Amazon's miracle book reader, the Kindle. Seven hundred people responded, which puts the survey somewhat below what researchers would expect from Gallup, but it is a reasonable straw poll, nonetheless...
...standing among Catholics. After all, he got 54% of their votes not because of his positions on social issues but because of concerns about the economy, health care and Iraq. Indeed, Catholics are more natural partners for Democrats than has been clear over the past three decades. A Gallup poll released in late March showed that Catholics are more liberal than other Americans when it comes to accepting a wide range of matters, such as homosexuality, gambling and out-of-wedlock births, and are far more likely to oppose capital punishment...
Global warming may never get its perfect picture - Earth Hour, a globe gone dark, may be the closest thing we'll have. That's all right - at a time when a recent Gallup poll reports that a record-high 41% of Americans think global warming is exaggerated, green groups need to do everything they can to keep this issue on the front burner, here and in the rest of the world. "The take home message from Earth Hour should be that we are not alone," says Roberts. "I want people to go to the website, but after, I want them...