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Sources: New7Wonders (2); Pew Research Center (2); Associated Press (2); Chicago Tribune...
...comfy distance. A recent Newsweek poll suggests that 91 percent of Americans believe in God. The poll also finds that 82 percent of the population identifies itself as Christian, only four percent more than the CIA’s estimation of 78 percent. However despite weighty numbers, a 2006 Pew poll shows only a relatively paltry 40 percent attend religious services on a weekly basis. Most Americans want their president to believe in God but few want governance based upon Holy Scripture. Americans like religion on their own terms. This isn’t that surprising. After all, the original...
...inevitable that the movement he had done so much to create would grow up, stretch out, even rebel against his strong paternal supervision. Part of this was the much chronicled disillusionment of some Christian soldiers who had duly marched onto the field, gone door to door and pew to pew in search of new voters, placed their faith in politics and politicians to promote their most precious values, only to find those values were a currency that could be traded away behind closed doors. After six years with a born-again evangelical in the White House and the G.O.P. dominant...
...While the accuracy of information found on Wikipedia may be up for debate, no one argues the phenomenal success of the online encyclopedia. More than a third of American adult Internet users (36%) consult it according to a recent survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project...
...targets for future carbon-emission levels. The move failed, but it's unlikely to be the last time China and India drag their feet on climate change. "It's clear that the developed world will not move without something from the developing nations," says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. But at the same time, she adds, "there's no chance of getting China unless the U.S. steps...