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When in the year 2000, the Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had overtaken Blacks as the largest minority group in America, I wrote an article I called The End of Black America. At that point readers thought I was just being hysteric.
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The government increased its monthly crop forecast for this year’s corn and soybean harvest due to wetter weather, potentially lowering commodity prices.
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Nearly half the countries that participated in the Beijing Olympics failed to tell organizers where their athletes were so they could be drug tested outside of...
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Cannabis is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, according to a report by a research charity Thursday, which called for a
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A review of the NBA’s officiating program released Thursday made recommendations for significant changes and found no evidence of illegal activity by any referee...
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A review of the NBA’s officiating program has made recommendations for significant changes, but found no evidence of illegal activity by any referees other than...
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Doubts have been cast over both the justice Nanavati and justice Banerjee reports.
Perhaps the truth of what happened at Godhra will never come out.
But one thing can...
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The World Health Organization halved its estimate of the number of people who get malaria each year, saying Thursday that better measurement techniques had cut the...
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The government reduces its forecast for this year’s corn and soybean harvests due to dryer weather, potentially leading to higher prices.
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The United States remains “dangerously vulnerable” to chemical, biological and nuclear attacks seven years after the 9/11 attacks, a forthcoming independent...
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The United States remains “dangerously vulnerable” to chemical, biological and nuclear attacks seven years after 9/11, a forthcoming independent study...
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The United States remains “dangerously vulnerable” to chemical, biological and nuclear attacks seven years after 9/11, a forthcoming independent study...
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Substandard science has hurt a federal agency’s seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes...
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The Irish Republican Army is fading away in Northern Ireland and poses no security threat to the British territory, international experts concluded Wednesday in another...
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International experts say the Irish Republican Army is fading away in Northern Ireland and poses no security threat to the British territory.
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This Labor Day finds workers in worse shape than they’ve been in years, according to a scorecard released Monday by Rutgers University.
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Reported incidents of mortgage fraud jumped 42 percent nationwide, with Florida reporting the highest number of cases, according to industry data released Monday.
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Despite ongoing safety concerns from parents, consumer groups and politicians, a chemical used in baby bottles, canned food and other items is not dangerous, federal...
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Rapid advances in neuroscience could have a dramatic impact on national security and the way in which future wars are fought, US intelligence officials have been told.
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Intelligence gathering is neither straightforward nor foolproof. The intelligence community’s abject failure when it came to the matter of Iraq and WMDs...
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Farmers are on pace to produce the second largest corn crop and fourth largest soybean crop in history, which may lead to lower prices for the key grains, the...
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Fear of the government in some communities after the Sept. 11 attacks and years of debate over immigration policy could create problems in getting an accurate count of...
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North Korea says it will conduct a census next month that is believed to be the impoverished nation’s first in 15 years.
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The 2008 Republican platform, in language that is hostile to immigrants, says only those legally residing in the United States should be counted in the next census.
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More women in their early 40s are childless, and those who are having children are having fewer than ever before, the Census Bureau said Monday.
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Same-sex marriage is legal in two states, but not a single one will show up in the 2010 census.The Census Bureau says the federal Defense of Marriage Act bars the...
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The underwater world and the underworld have at least one thing in common _ lots of aliases. The Census of Marine Life, an effort to catalog all species of life in the...
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The Census Bureau said Wednesday it will fingerprint and conduct background checks on more than a half million temporary workers who will go door to door for the 2010...
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Iraq’s government announced on Tuesday that it will conduct a census next year in an effort to determine the real numbers of the country’s religious and...
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Iraq’s government announced on Tuesday that it will conduct a census next year in an effort to determine the real numbers of the country’s religious and...
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You can clearly read HARRIS on the front of the Census phone from HTC which got approved yet again by the Federal Communications Commission. By the look of it, it’s...
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The Census Bureau has scaled back its dress rehearsal for the once-a-decade national head count, raising fears that thousands of soldiers, immigrants and other...
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The No. 2 official at the Census Bureau is stepping down amid criticism the agency bungled a technology contract, adding billions to the cost of the 2010 count while...
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The company hired to help modernize the 2010 census blamed government officials Wednesday for technology problems that will force census-takers to continue using paper...
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Stumbling over its multibillion-dollar plans for a high-tech census, the government says it will go back to counting the nation’s 300 million people the...
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Stumbling over its multibillion-dollar plans for a high-tech census, the government says it will go back to counting the nation’s 300 million people the...
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Technology problems will force the Census Bureau to return to using paper and pencil to count the nation’s 300 million residents in the 2010 census.Commerce...
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San Francisco is challenging U.S. census figures after a study found the federal government undercounted city residents by almost 100,000.Mayor Gavin Newsom said Monday...
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Having sons is important to many Asian cultures, and now American families from those groups seem to be asserting the same preference. A new analysis of the 2000 Census...
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In a March 26 story about new population estimates from the Census Bureau, The Associated Press erroneously reported the population of the Palm Coast, Fla., area. It is...
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