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Ten million people under age 30 voted in the congressional election,an increase from 8 million in 2002.Exit polls indicated that 60 percent of these young voters cast their ballots for Democratic candidates.

Reuters

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Sanitation workers in the U.S. die at a higher rate than either policemen of firefighters.Most of their deaths result from being struck by other vehicles while loading trash into their trucks.

The New Yorker

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A recount in the 13th Congressional District in Sarasota County,Florida,has discovered that a computerized voting machine failed to record about 15,000 voters. There is no paper record,so those voters are lost.The apparent winner,a Republican,is leading by 400 votes.

The Boston Globe

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The price tag for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will soon surpass that of the decade-long Vietnam War.By next year,the cost of on going U.S. miitary operations since 9/11 is expected to approach $600 billion.The Vietnam War,in today's dollars,cost $536 billion.

USA Today

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Reports of Hollywood's demise have been exaggerated.This year's box-office take is 6.5 percent higher than last year's and the moviegoing audience grew by five percent.

The New York Times

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Ninty-two percent of airline frequent flier miles are never redeened.

The Washington Post

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Only 10 percent of the estimated 135,000 adoptions in the U.S. each year involve an anonymous unwed mother surrendering her baby to institutions or strangers.Today most birth mothers screen the adoptive parents,and ask for continuing,face to face contact with their child.

The Philadelphis Inquirer

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Forty percent of the wounds caused by knives, guns, and icepicks are inflicted by friends or relatives of the victims

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More than 155,000 American women have served in the Iraq and Afganistan wars.Among their ranks the Pentagon said,are more than 16,000 single mothers.

The Washington Post

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In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran," according to his wife, accidentally jogged off a 200-foot-high cliff on his daily run.

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In a survey conducted in 2000 by Kimberly-Clark, it was found that men prefer to fold their toilet paper, and women like to wad it.

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More than 50,000 Americans get sick or died in 2000-2004 from something they ate,a review of federal reports found.The cause of nearly two-thirds of the cases of food poisoning were officially listed as "unknown."

Scripps Howard News Service

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The AK-47 assault rifle,introduced in World War II, remains the firearm of choice for 50 nations' armies and countess guerillas and other fighting forces. It is used to kill about 250,000 people a year.

The Washington Post

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China will surpass the U.S. as the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide by 2009.To feed its exploding electricity demand,the country adds a new coal-fired plant every 10 days.

The New Yorkk Times

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Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.

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Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!

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The Pentagon no longer Classifies homosexaality as a mental disorder.Instead it officially groups homosexuality under conditions,circumstances,and defects not conductive to military service including bed-wetting,sleepwalking,dyslexia,stuttering,and obesity.

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At mid-century, almost one-half of the women in the United States between the ages of eighteen and sixty-four work outside the home.

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Arizona, with an average rainfall of only 7.81 inches annually, is the driest state in the United States.

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A record 37 percent of all births in the United States last year were to unmarried women,the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported.For women ages 20 to 24,more than half of births were outside of marriage.

New York Post