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The average commute time is about 30 minutes.

How much time do you spend traveling to work: Map

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/how-much-time-do-you-spend-traveling-work-map-0

HapMap

Each dot shows the location of a geotagged tweet gathered during the past 24 hours. Colors are proportional to happiness - red is happier, blue is sadder. http://www.uvm.edu/~lmitche1/main/HapMap.html

What are the Odds of Dying, Chances of Dying from various causes

http://www.nsc.org/news_resources/injury_and_death_statistics/Pages/TheOddsofDyingFrom.aspx Responding to frequent inquiries asking questions such as, "What are the odds of being killed by lightning?" or "What are the chances of dying in a plane crash?"
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Broken and Obsolete « Fareed Zakaria

http://fareedzakaria.com/2012/06/08/broken-and-obsolete/ Broken and Obsolete Posted by Fareed Zakaria on June 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment An immigration deadlock makes the U.S. a second-rate nation By Fareed Zakaria As the American economy sags, the race for the presidency gets tighter—except in one dimension.
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Adding fuel to the fiery debate over immigration policy, a study released Tuesday shows that top science achievers in the U.S. are overwhelmingly the children of immigrants. The study, conducted by the National Foundation for American Policy , found that 70 percent of the finalists in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition -- also known as the "Junior Nobel Prize" -- were the children of immigrants even though only 12 percent of the U.S. population is foreign-born. According to the report, children of immigrant parents have been increasingly dominant in the fields of math and science. In 2004, for example, researchers found that 60 percent of the top science students in the U.S. and 65 percent of the top math students were born to immigrant families. Findings were based upon data from the Intel Science Talent Search and the 2004 U.S. Math Olympiad.

Children of Immigrants Are America's Science Superstars

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/24/immigrants-science_n_866321.html

Are the Richest Americans Also the Best Educated?

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