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Syrians support the idea of cloning themselves more than any other nationality (51.9 percent); fewer Americans give it the thumbs-up (15.3 percent), and Norwegians like it the least (8 percent) (Planet Project) … India’s population is expected to overtake China’s by 2028 (USAID) … Requests for H-1B visas, which give foreign specialists access to US […]

Syrians support the idea of cloning themselves more than any other nationality (51.9 percent); fewer Americans give it the thumbs-up (15.3 percent), and Norwegians like it the least (8 percent) (Planet Project) ... India's population is expected to overtake China's by 2028 (USAID) ... Requests for H-1B visas, which give foreign specialists access to US jobs, fell from 53,000 in December to 16,000 in February (INS) ... Americans spend nearly 50 minutes a day managing email at work (Gartner) ... 64 percent of female employees in America use desktop computers in the office; only 60 percent of male workers do (Consumer Electronics Association) ... 14 percent of British households will use interactive TV this year, compared with 8 percent in the US (Jupiter MMXI) ... Google searches for "Carol Brady" went from zero to 20,369 in the three minutes after Who Wants to Be a Millionaire's Regis Philbin asked this million-dollar question: "What was Carol Brady's maiden name on The Brady Bunch ?" (Google) ... Between 1993 and 2000, customer complaints against Baby Bells tripled, from 150 to 450 for every 1 million telephone lines in operation (FCC/ARMIS)

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