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...Differences 40% Percentage of U.S. women who closely followed recent news stories on tornadoes in the South and Midwest, compared with only 25% of men. A new study finds that women focus more on stories about weather, health and safety 40% Percentage of men who closely followed stories on tension between the U.S. and Iran; 27% of women tuned in. Men generally favored sports, politics and international affairs in the study...
...These motivations seem so universal that sometimes it's easy to forget where you are. But that's a mistake. There is genuine if sometimes subtle tension even in booming, middle-class China, and some of it is evident every time I go out for a bike ride, past the security guards at the entrance of Emerald Riverside. The developments here aren't exactly gated communities, but all of them are guarded, and for a legitimate reason: the fault lines between the migrants and the middle class are very real. Petty crime - theft, primarily - is common; and rarely...
...Percentage of men who closely followed February 2007 stories on tension between the U.S. and Iran; 27% of women tuned in. Men generally favored sports, politics and international affairs...
...little effect given that the former army commander was still on the run. "Even after the elections, we felt like we were waiting for something bad to happen," says Marcelino Magno, chief of staff for Fernando de Araujo, East Timor's speaker of parliament. "There was a lot of tension building...
...Prime Minister Erdogan, an often blustery and impatient politician, has done little to ease the tension. "If [the headscarf] is indeed a political symbol, does that make it a crime to wear it? Is wearing a symbol a crime?," he said at the start of this debate last month. To secularists, his words confirmed their worst fears - that the headscarf is not an expression of religious piety but of a political movement that ultimately seeks to impose Islamic law. Thousands of secularists, mostly women, took to the streets in the capital of Ankara last week chanting "Turkey will not become...