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Hate group formation associated with big-box stores

The presence of big-box retailers, such as Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Target, may alter a community's social and economic fabric enough to promote the creation of hate groups, according to economists.

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created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (12) | comments 12

Teenagers who 'want to be famous' face poorer job prospects in later life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Teenagers who have unclear career aspirations, or whose ambitions are mismatched with their educational expectations spend more time in unemployment as adults and achieve lower wages according ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Adolescents involved with music do better in school

A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly reveals that music participation, defined as music lessons taken in or out of school and parents attending concerts with their children, has a positive effect on readin ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Adolescents with unpopular names more prone to committing crime

A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly examined the relationship between first name popularity in adolescents and tendency to commit crime. Results show that, regardless of race, juveniles with unpopular names ...

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (6) | comments 4




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LIVE: Facebook goes public

(AP) -- It's Facebook's big day. The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people, is making the most talked-about stock market debut ...

Technology / Business

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yahoo soap opera features new cast of leaders

(AP) -- Yahoo's dysfunctional turnaround efforts have morphed into a Silicon Valley soap opera, one that has taken another strange twist with the Internet company's ousting of CEO Scott Thompson just four ...

Technology / Business

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Team identifies water vulnerability in border region

The Arizona-Sonora region has been called the front line of ongoing climate change, with global climate models projecting severe precipitation decreases and temperature increases coupled with vulnerability ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gulf Coast residents say BP Oil Spill changed their environmental views, research finds

University of New Hampshire researchers have found that residents of Louisiana and Florida most acutely and directly affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Interrogational torture: Effective or purely sadistic?

While government officials have argued that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are necessary to protect American citizens, the effectiveness of such techniques has been debated. According to a recent study, when torture ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 23

Study: Young people not so 'green' after all

They have a reputation for being environmentally minded do-gooders. But an academic analysis of surveys spanning more than 40 years has found that today's young Americans are less interested in the environment ...

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created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Minority administrators, school personnel key to engaging immigrant parents

Minority principals and other administrative personnel at elementary and high schools play a key role in implementing policies and practices aimed at engaging immigrant parents of students, according to new research from ...

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created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Education doesn't increase support for affirmative action among whites, minorities

Highly educated whites and minorities are no more likely to support workplace affirmative action programs than are their less educated peers, according to a new study in the March issue of Social Psychology Quarterly, which ...

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created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Political leaders play key role in how worried Americans are by climate change: study

More than extreme weather events and the work of scientists, it is national political leaders who influence how much Americans worry about the threat of climate change, new research finds.

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created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 175

Online news portals get credibility boost from trusted sources

People who read news on the web tend to trust the gate even if there is no gatekeeper, according to Penn State researchers.

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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