And using criteria of the security-focused education group SANS to gauge offline applications, the study found that 18% of government apps passed, compared with 28% of finance industry apps and 34% of commercial software.

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By 2007 that had fallen to just 10, 600, and although it's recovered a little to 13, 600 last year, that's at a time in major growth in overall applications, so the percentage of students looking to study the subject has fallen from 5% to 3%.

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But one recent study shows that a majority of adoption agencies in the U.S. now accepts applications from gays.

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