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...streets and in the highest reaches of government. Although some members of his party were visibly upset when the election results were announced, the center and left parties, which joined ranks to vote Blocher out of the office, expressed their satisfaction that "democracy has prevailed." And, in a nationwide survey conducted shortly after the election, 60 percent of Swiss citizens said they were happy about Blocher's exclusion. "There is a big sense of relief that the legislators were brave enough to force this change," Lutz says...
Percentage of adult Internet users in the U.S. who said in a new survey that they had used Google or a similar search engine to look for information about themselves...
...postoperative cancer patients. An October 2007 pilot study by the Mayo Clinic showed that massage significantly reduced pain levels in patients recovering from heart surgery, prompting the internationally renowned treatment center to bring a full-time massage therapist onboard. That same month, the American Massage Therapy Association published a survey in which 30% of all respondents who had received a massage in the last five years did so for medical reasons - including pain relief, injury recovery, soreness and control of migraines - compared with 22% who sought relaxation and 13% who were merely indulging themselves. The survey also found that nearly...
...preliminary round of nominations from A.N.C. branch parties gave Zuma, the party's deputy president, a crushing lead over the incumbent, Thabo Mbeki, who is currently President of both the party and the country. An Ipsos Markinor Socio-Political Trends survey of 3,500 people taken in November and released on Saturday also showed 41% of South Africans think Zuma should succeed Mbeki as leader of their nation in 2009, when the constitution requires him to step down...
CORRECTION: The Dec. 13 news article "Ph.D.s Ditch the Lab" incorrectly stated that the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences does not collect data on alumni employment after graduation. In fact, the school conducts a survey of its former students three years after graduation...