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55% of online teens have created a personal profile online, and 55% have used social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook.

More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites.

Two out of every three Latinos now believe that U.S. troops should be brought home from Iraq as soon as possible and only one in four thinks the U.S. made the right decision in using military force.

More than three years ago, in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal, the New York Times announced it would hire its first-ever public editor or ombudsman to act as an independent monitor of the paper. Now a published report raises the issue of whether the Times is thinking about eliminating the position. Such a decision would likely reverberate throughout the newspaper industry. What are Times officials thinking?

Most Americans are moderately upbeat about their family's financial prospects in the coming year, with 57% expecting some improvement in their financial situation and another 10% expecting a lot of improvement.

What do Bill O'Reilly, Anderson Cooper and Jim Cramer have in common? The three cable news personalities are all hawking their own line of gifts -- from varsity jackets to fitness kits to bobblehead dolls. If you're wondering how to spend those holiday gifts of cash you may have gotten, here's a chance to declare your loyalty in the fierce cable news wars.

The impact of the internet is evident in many ways in China

That's the number of Americans, about one-in-five, who think the economy will be better off a year from now, while 18% say it will be worse off, and most Americans (56%) say it will be about the same as now.

That's the portion of registered voters who received recorded telephone messages in the final stages of the 2006 mid-term election. These so-called "robo-calls" were the second most popular way for campaigns and political activists to reach voters, trailing only direct mail as a key tool of political communication.

That's the number of Americans who said in May that they were following the news about high gas prices very closely--making prices at the pump the most closely tracked of any other story, including Iraq, during 2006.