Nearly 35, 000 Eritreans live in the U.S., according to census data, and many have been here long enough to find jobs and buy homes, making them tempting targets.
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Chief executives continue to make headlines for what many consider to be their excessive pay, but according to government data released Monday, doctors, on average, do even better.
There are 4.5 billion mobile phones in the developing world, according to data compiled by USAID, and many of them are "feature phones" -- not-so-smart devices that only make calls and send text messages.
Obesity and tobacco use each kill more 400, 000 Americans a year, ten times as many people as die in car accidents, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control.
The bad news is that prices for many everyday items had already been ticking up, according to data from December 2004 and December 2007 collected by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Slave narratives describe how others used the data to calculate punishment, meting out whippings according to how many pounds each picker fell short.
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According to data in a recent government report, even courses offered by many of the leading colleges would fail the gainful-employment test as currently proposed.
Rents in the section of Tokyo where Mori has many of its projects are down nearly 25% from early 2008, according to data compiled by real-estate brokerage Ken Corp.
Manufacturing generates about 12 percent of national GDP, a higher percentage than many other sectors including retail, wholesale trade, health care or financial services, according to data from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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Many mid-list authors have fallen victim to increasingly sophisticated, widely available sales data, according to agents and publishers.
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As many as 8% of children in the United States have at least one food allergy, according to research data.
Every year as many as 150, 000 divorced parents in Japan lose contact with their children, according to estimates gleaned from official data.
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