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UNESCO: Education Sector, France

Another exciting open data announcement came from the U.S. Census Bureau which updated its popular QuickFacts site with the new American Community Survey statistics (about 11 billion individual estimates), providing access to information about a town, county or state.

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Least reassuring of all, the government continues to bang on about Heathrow's lack of capacity, apparently unaware that air-traffic projections made during the longest period of sustained economic growth since British statistics have been comprehensively collected might need to be updated.

ECONOMIST: Airport expansion