In statistics: How US changed
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Five years after the 11 September attacks, how has America changed? Use this guide to explore long term trends in various aspects of life.
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USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but donÂ´t really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their smog statistics shown in pie charts.
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Corrects percentage change in first paragraph and headline to year-over-year figure, from sequential figure
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OTTAWA (CP) - The nature of child care is changing, a Statistics Canada study indicates.
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Once upon a time, America ruled. No, no. I mean ruled . When I was growing up, we were international sports tyrants. We took it all for granted.
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Common sense, Ã¦sthetics, and national character have prevailed; the forces of high modernism and weenie rationalism have received a setback.  The European Union has chosen to no longer pressure people in the British Isles to convert exclusively to the metric system.
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By Bill Hutchens, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 6--In the 1980s, we were blessed (or cursed, depending on how you look at it) with two cartoons that taught us to unleash our creativity, look at life in new ways, reject all that was stale.
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U.S. consumer scientists have conducted one of the first studies detailing how car purchasing has changed since the advent of the Internet.  The investigators found online research has largely supplanted time spent at a dealership.
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The number of deaths in the United States rose in 2005 after a sharp decline the year earlier, a disappointing reversal that suggests the 2004 numbers were a fluke. Cancer deaths were also up.
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There are changes afoot as PBS' "Now" begins its new season.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- In the 1980s and &#39;90s, Americans tried to control their weight by watching their cholesterol by cutting dietary fat and substituting carbohydrates. They paid little mind to total calories and physical activity. And guess what happened to their waistlines -- and their children&#39;s?
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Your past can be changed--or at least your recollection of it.
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American children and adults have become a little bit taller over the past 40 years, but a lot heavier, according to government statistics.
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The old methods of U.S. discrimination at the polls have been replaced by "subtler and more creative tactics," according to a report released on Wednesday.
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Americans are a bit taller and much heavier than they were in the early 1960s, says a report released Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The New Republic's website is currently carrying an interesting piece which tries to explain the anomaly that although the US economy is growing, a lot of its citizens are still feeling worse off. The article explains the results of a 40 year panel study which has shown that although mean incomes have increased, income variability has increased massively, causing many Americans to feel less well off, despite the growing economy.
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Science & environment: Bad science: A 1954 book called How to Lie with Statistics reads exactly like this column which I'm about to write on a Daily Telegraph story in 2008