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►Population turning point: Nonwhite parents account for more than half of recent U.S. births
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Romney 'takes credit' for auto recovery
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Science Diary: Climate Change - Extinction?
Australia's white lemuroid possum may be the world's first mammal to go extinct via global warming.
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-- May 23, 2012
This week's word in the news: SEDENTARY
DEFINITION:
Accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Pets are getting fatter because of their increasingly sedentary lifestyles and they are being overfed, and more than one in seven cats and dogs in Ohio are now overweight or obese, according to a new report
►Dayton Daily News -- 05/21/2012
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