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Post by **noreply66** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:20 am

A growing number of parents are choosing to start their children in kindergartin a year late, figuring their kids will have a better chance of being at the top of their class if they're older than most of their classmates. In some affluent communities, a government report found,as many as 20 percent of eligible kindergartners are held back.

U.S. News & World Report

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:00 am

About 70 percent of the visits to Internet porn sites come during regular office hours.In surveys,the average worker admits to wasting 2 hours each workday,often by visiting Web sites.

The Weekly Standard

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:09 am

To beat traffic congession and to get an early start on workdays that often last 10 or more hours,one out of every eight U.S. workers now begins commuting before 6 a.m.

USA Today

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 6:43 am

During his famous "Blue Period," Pablo Picasso invented the substance that eventually became known as Play-Doh.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:50 am

The U.S. would have to spend at least $94 billion just to detain and remove the nations estimated 12 million illegal immigrants,Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Juli Myers told Congress last week.That figure does not include the larely unknowable cost of actually tracking down and arresting the illegal immigrants,or court proceedings.

CNN

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:35 pm

About 48 percent of Asians immigrants in the U.S. hold at least a bachelor's degree,the Census Bureau reported. That far exceeds the 27 percent of native-born Americans who hold such degrees. About 11 percent of immigrants from Latin America are college graduates.

Minneapolis Star Tribune

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:14 am

It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:07 am

A recent survey of 180 hours of TV programming between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. found 2,246 instances of violent,profane,or sexual contemt--one every 4.8 minutes,Fox said the Parents Television Council,was the network with the most objectionable content.

Time

USAF_Defender23 · Post by **USAF_Defender23** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:48 pm

In July 1934 Babe Ruth paid a fan $20 dollars for the return of the baseball he hit for his 700th career home run.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:57 am

Anthropologists have discovered a tribe of South American monkeys with a rudimentary system of government analogous to our own three-branch form of government.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:52 am

Life expectancy for Americans is now nearly 78 years,the longest in U.S. history,the National Center for Health Stastistic reported.But at least 40 other nations still have longer life expectancies.

Associated Press

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:41 am

Britney Spears was banned from L.A.'s Chateau Marmont two weeks ago after another guest complained that she smeared a plate of food over her face in the hotel restaurant,said the London Sun. "You wouldn't expect that from a teenager in a fast food joint," a witness told the newspaper.

USAF_Defender23 · Post by **USAF_Defender23** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:33 pm

Three Mexican minors detained in California on suspicion of smuggling drugs stole a U.S. Border Patrol car while still wearing handcuffs and drove it back across the border to Mexico.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:38 am

The number of words in the Bible divided by the number of verses equals exactly 666.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:16 am

Between 10 percent to 20 percent of all returning veterans of the war in Iraq have suffered a previosly unidentified form of brain damage as a result of close encounters with roadside bombs,pentagon scientists say.
Powerful pressure waves from the blast can cause microscopic cell damage to the brains of soldiers who aren't visibly injured,leading to delayed memory problems,scattered thinking and constant headaches. "This is a new beast," said brain-injury specialist Alisa Gean.

USA Today

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:20 am

Atheism is on the rise.Only 6 percent of people older than 60 say they do not believe in God,but among those ages 18 to 22 ,one in four is an atheist.

The Washington Poast

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:21 am

Fifty years after the Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game and moved to Los Angeles,nostalgia for the legendary team has generated more than 100 books,three major TV documentaries,and almost a thousand pieces of memorabilia for sale on eBay and the sports-memento market. Modell's Sporting Goods still sells 17 kinds of Brooklyn Dodgers caps.

USA Today

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:46 am

Three-quarters of African American students attend schools that are more than 50 percent black or Latino,while the average white student goes to a school that is 80 percent white,according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Overall, schools are more segregated today than they were in 1970.

Time

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:12 am

More than three times as many blacks live in prison cells than in college dorms,according to a new Census Bureau report.For Latinos,the ratio is 2.7 inmates for evey dorm dweller.Twice as many whites live in cllege housing as in prison.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:42 am

Winston Churchill was born with a third nipple, which he removed himself with nail-clippers at the age of 14.