Word: michigan
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...church because of the priest abuse scandals and the lack of outrage by previous Popes over this moral hide - and - seek game that the church has played for many years. The Pope's statement on this scandal will be too little too late. Carol M. Fleming, Suttons Bay, Michigan...
...population. In 1940 they accounted for 86% of adults 25 and older; by 2007, that percentage was only 48. But they tend to be concentrated in many of the states that have been most competitive in recent presidential elections and are likely to be again this fall: states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio...
...backlash is well under way. David Diggs, a junior at Michigan State University who has some 300 Facebook friends, complains, "It's annoying to get about 70 invitations a day about taking some kind of quiz or adding an application." Diggs is one of more than a million people who have joined a Facebook group that is petitioning to ban the inviting of friends on applications. (Ironically, the group encourages members to invite their friends to join the cause.) In February, Facebook responded to users' outcries by allowing people to block application invitations individually, but petitioners are demanding the ability...
...DOMESTICITY 7 Number of extra hours per week of household chores performed by married women in the U.S., compared to single women, according to a University of Michigan study. The overall amount of housework by American women fell 34% between 1976 and 2005 1 Drop in the number of hours per week of housework done by men after they get married. The average number of hours for men rose from...
Sources: University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (2); International Herald Tribune (2); Financial Times (2); BBC; Reuters...