Americans Think U.S. On Wrong Track Posted: 10 months ago by dollyllama
Concern about the direction of the country is accompanied by growing alarm about the condition of the economy - now the country’s most important problem. Perceptions of the condition of the national economy continue to drop, and most Americans think the worst is yet to come.
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America is on the wrong track: NBC poll Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Two out of three Americans think their country is on the wrong track, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Global Economic Recession, Country by Country Posted: 2 weeks ago by 2manyusernames
For the last few years the global economy has been running on two engines, the U.S. on the consumption side and China on the production side, both lifting the entire global economy. That was then.
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Things Americans Say Wrong Posted: 1 year ago by Mango-fox
...especially Texans. (found off of TheStep's post)
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Why Don't The French Get As Fat As Americans? Americans Eat Until The TV Show Is Over Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Because they use internal cues -- such as no longer feeling hungry -- to stop eating, reports a new Cornell study. Americans, on the other hand, tend to use external cues -- such as whether their plate is clean, they have run out of their beverage or the TV show they're watching is over.
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Americans must diet to save their economy Posted: 4 months ago by bingo
Want to save the US economy? Go on a diet.
That's the message ecologists are trying to get across this week. They say the apparently looming energy crisis could be averted if US residents cut their calorie intake.
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Scientists Say Early Americans Arrived Earlier Posted: 8 months ago by DemureArt
A team led by two Texas A&M University anthropologists now believes the first Americans came to this country 1,000 to 2,000 years earlier than the 13,500 years ago previously thought, which could shift historic timelines.
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Cured, the boy whose blood flowed the WRONG WAY round his body Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
A toddler has had pioneering surgery to stop his heart pumping blood the wrong way around his body.

Alec Hutchinson, three, was born with a rare condition which meant the blood vessels in his heart were plumbed in back to front.
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GET READY FOR THE OIL-PRICE DROP Posted: 5 months ago by goober
The world economy can't handle current energy prices, much less a big increase.
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State of the Union Remix 2007 Posted: 2 years ago by LatueOfStiberty
Thank you very much, and tonight I have to begin the State of the Union message with these words: Madame Speaker. This is a nightmare scenario.

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National Debt Clock Adds a Digit to Accommodate Growing Deficit Posted: 1 month ago by Nateebiinature
In these uncertain financial times, one thing remains certain — the ever-expanding national debt. But it's growing at such an accelerated rate, the clock that has kept track of the deficit since 1989 has had to add a digit.
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