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Americans stories: 32 news summaries

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More US Kids, Young Adults Commiting Suicide

Rate rises most sharply among teen girls

Sep 6, 07 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Suicide rates among America's children and young adults surged by 8% between 2003 and 2004, the most significant increase over the past 15 years, a new Centers for Disease Control report shows. The hike coincides with a 22% decrease in antidepressant use, but it could be related to changes in... More »

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suicide • depression • antidepressant • children • Americans • youth

We're Still Getting Fatter

Obesity epidemic continues to spread

Aug 27, 07 6:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans just keep getting fatter. Obesity rates were up in 31 states this year and declined in none, a new study by a health advocacy group finds. That brings the percentage of American adults who are either obese or overweight to 60%, Reuters reports, and the usual suspects are to... More »

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obesity • nutrition • childhood obesity • diabetes • obesity epidemic • heart disease • epidemic • America • Americans • Mississippi • stroke • health study

Americans Double Use
of Pain Meds

Led by Oxycodone, sales of painkillers soared 90% in 8 years

Aug 20, 07 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Retail sales of five major painkillers rose a whopping 90% from 1997 to 2005, a new AP analysis of DEA statistics shows. The increase is driven by Oxycodone, the chemical used in OxyContin, which has seen sales increase nearly 600%. Causes include an aging population, huge new drug marketing campaigns,... More »

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medicine • OxyContin • patient • Americans • painkiller • Oxycodone

Boy Scouts
Reach Out to Latinos

Soccer, Spanish lighting the spark for a new class of scouts

Aug 13, 07 12:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - With enrollment down almost 10% in the last 10 years, the Boy Scouts are reaching out to Latinos to fill their ranks. Handbooks, advertisements and bumper stickers are now available in Spanish, and the “be prepared” group has even had permission from ministers to recruit in Hispanic churches, the... More »

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soccer • Americans • Latinos • diversity • Soccer and Scouting • Hispanic • Boy Scouts of America

Why Small Government
Has Collapsed

Prospect writer says Dems can drown movement in bathtub

Aug 8, 07 6:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats have never been so well positioned to sell big-government liberalism—as the other side looks pathetically out of step with Americans’ desires to expand health care and bolster infrastructure, says the American Prospect’s Paul Waldman. After the Minnesota bridge collapse, the public is ready for the party that... More »

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health care • Hillary Clinton • Democrats • health insurance • Americans • SCHIP • infrastructure • Andrew Sullivan • George W. Bush

Climate Change Deniers
Still Impeding Progress

Americans lost in haze of contradictory information

Aug 7, 07 5:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists thought they'd convinced the world it was getting warmer, but a powerful, flush campaign of cynics is still successfully sowing doubt, Newsweek reports—and hobbling efforts to stave off disaster. From its humble beginnings ridiculing any warming, the "denial machine" has picked up funding from big oil and... More »

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climate change • environment • oil • global warming • science • Americans

Rent-a-Yanks Push Goodwill Abroad

German schools book young US speakers to combat anti-Americanism

Jul 27, 07 10:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - American exchange students in Germany are so bombarded with broadsides against the US government and lifestyle that one university has started a program called "Rent an American." Yanks visit German schools to answer questions about the Bush administration, climate change, and the death penalty, all in an effort... More »

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Germany • university • Americans • Rent an American • student • exchange student

American Pigs Out on Dogs, Sets Record

Coney Island contest goes against Kobayashi for first time in 6 years

Jul 4, 07 5:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a glorious tribute to the Founding Fathers, an American shattered the world hot-dog-eating record today, polishing off 66 franks and buns in 12 minutes in the annual Nathan's Famous contest in Coney Island, NY. Joey Chestnut, 23, held off Japanese competitive-eating legend Takeru Kobayashi to upset the six-time defending... More »

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Takeru Kobayashi • Joey Chestnut • Nathan's • Coney Island • Americans

Majority of Alcoholics Are Young Adults

Study splits drinkers into 5 categories;
2 largest are in 20s

Jul 2, 07 12:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - More than half of all alcoholics in the United States are young adults, reveals a new study that surveyed 1,484 US adults. The study, reported by CBS, divided problem drinkers into five types. Despite the stereotype of the alcoholic as middle-aged, the average age in the two largest groups—... More »

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drugs • alcohol • alcoholism • United States • dependence • drug use • Americans • young adult

Young Americans Swing Left, Favor Dems

Support universal health care

Jun 27, 07 5:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Young Americans are skewing left, with fewer identifying themselves as Republicans and more siding with Democrats on hot-button issues, according to a New York Times/CBS/MTV poll. Those surveyed, aged 17 to 29, are more likely than the general public to favor universal health care, gay marriage and open-door immigration. More »

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immigration • Democrats • gay marriage • universal health care • Americans • youth • Election 2008

Wine Buzz Grows, Beer Flattens

The beer class is
finally embracing the grape, Slate says

May 31, 07 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The American middle class has become connoisseurs of everything—coffee, '80s Japanese garage-rock bands, environmentalist toilet paper, and now wine, writes Slate's Field Maloney. Fermented grape juice doubled its audience in the past decade, while consumption of lower-brow beer stagnated. And for the first time in history, Americans pollees prefer... More »

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food • alcohol • wine • beer • pastoral chic • middle class • drink • drinking • Americans • wine industry

GOP Moderates Huddle With Bush on Iraq

Blunt conversation reveals deepening fissure between Bush and party over war

May 10, 07 6:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Moderate Republicans met with Bush and his closest aides yesterday in a private meeting one participant called "a remarkable, candid conversation" the Washington Post reports. The representatives made clear their frustration with the war in Iraq, and its unpopularity with their constituents, as both parties attempt to hammer out... More »

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Iraq • Republican • Iraq appropriations • war • Americans • Iraq war • George W. Bush

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