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Geographic Area April 1, 2010  July 1, 2011 Census 2011 United States 308,745,538 311,591,917 .Alabama 4,779,736 4,802,740 .Alaska 710,231 722,718 .Arizona 6,392,017 6,482,505 .Arkansas 2,915,918 2,937,979 .California 37,253,956 37,691,912 .Colorado 5,029,196 5,116,796 .Connecticut 3,574,097 3,580,709 .Delaware 897,934 907,135 .District of Columbia 601,723 617,996 .Florida 18,801,310 19,057,542 .Georgia 9,687,653 9,815,210 .Hawaii 1,360,301 1,374,810 .Idaho 1,567,582 1,584,985 […]

US silences scientists over man-made super flu that could ‘change world history’   AFP   There are some Hollywood fantasies you’d like to see in the real world. Hoverboards and Happy Places, for example. Then there are the Hollywood nightmares that you’d rather not think too much about. Or rather governments with huge military budgets […]

Report: Two Big East Members Discuss Leaving To Start Basketball-Only Conference   By Mike Rutherford – College Basketball Editor SB Nation   According to a report, two current Big East members have discussed the possibility of leaving the league to form a new one built around perennial basketball powerhouses.   Two current members of the […]

U.S. population grows at slowest rate since 1940s   By Chip Barnet | Reuters   NEW YORK – The population of the United States is growing at its slowest rate in more than 70 years, the U.S. Census Bureau said on Wednesday.   The country’s population increased by an estimated 2.8 million to 311.6 million […]

Airlines jostle for Nigeria’s burgeoning aviation market   Wole Shadare The Guardian   LAGOS- The Nigerian aviation market is considered a big market. With over 160 million population, it is natural that the market will remain where the population is. As airlines jostle to control larger market share of the nation’s industry, these airlines are […]

One-third of young U.S. adults have been arrested: study   By Genevra Pittman Reuters   NEW YORK- Close to one in three teens and young adults get arrested by age 23, suggests a new study that finds more of them are being booked now than in the 1960s.   Those arrests are for everything from […]

Touchless smartphones and TVs could be on sale in 2012   Katia Moskvitch BBC News  Technology reporter, Tel Aviv   So you’ve lost your TV remote control. Again.   Not to worry, says a tiny Israeli start-up company called XTR3D – soon you’ll be able to flick through channels and adjust the volume using only… […]

Microsoft Wins Ruling in Case Over Motorola Android Phones By Susan Decker Bloomberg   Microsoft Corp. won a ruling that Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.’s Android phones violate one of its smartphone patents, while failing to convince a judge that six others are being infringed as well.   Motorola Mobility, which is being acquired by Google […]

America’s Wealthiest and Poorest Lawmakers Net Worth, 2010   OpenSecrets.org   It is difficult to gauge what a lawmaker is worth based on what they file because the disclosure forms do not require exact values. Instead, the lawmaker reports the range of value into which an asset, for example, falls. As the values increase, the […]

Christian population shifting away from Europe   Associated Press   NEW YORK — The Christian population has shifted dramatically over the last century away from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Americas, yet Christians overall remain the largest religious group in the world, according to a new analysis released Monday.   Europe is home to […]