If current trends continue, it will soon surpass smoking in the U. s. as the biggest single factor in early death, reduced quality of life and added health care costs.

如果按目前的趋势下去，肥胖很快就会赶超吸烟，成为美国最大的健康杀手，导致英年早逝，生活质量下降，医疗保健费用增加。

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In the past 20 years, U. S. exports to China have increased by a factor of 12; while U. S. imports from China have increased almost 30-fold.

在过去20年里，美国对中国的出口增加了12倍，而美国从中国的进口则增加了近30倍。

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Analysts say another factor influencing public opinion is the growing opposition to capital punishment among U. s. Catholics.

分析人士说，另外一个左右美国公众舆论的因素是，美国天主教徒越来越反对死刑。

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Once you factor in the U-6 measure of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers and part-time workers seeking full time employment, the real unemployment rate is at a sky high 14.9%.

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Carole Therelaut of Naked Security points out that the data breach comes after the X-Factor changed its rules in the U.S. to allow children as young as 12 to enter its competition, unnervingly putting personal data on pre-teens in the hands of faceless hackers.

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While U.S. economic data has been weak recently, which is U.S. dollar-bearish, the one factor that could work to support the dollar and pressure the Euro currency in the near term would be a significant deterioration in the EU sovereign debt situation that EU and IMF officials are working hard to contain.

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