Since the early 1990s, as the Economist chart above shows, Olympics organizers have steadily added more and more freestyle skiing, snowboarding and other X Games-style events in a bid to appeal to younger viewers.
CVS' decision to stop selling tobacco products comes as smoking continues to decline and smokers are consuming fewer cigarettes.
Unlike Twitter, which has developed into a go-to source for breaking news, only 28% of Facebook news consumers have ever used the service to track an unfolding news story. And even among that sub-subgroup, fewer than half (41%) said Facebook was among the first places they'd turn to keep up with a breaking news event.
The number of Facebook users who log into the social-networking service or share content through it on any given day.
The share of Americans who say they're looking forward to the Winter Olympics.
More than six decades of global temperature data, condensed into a 15-second visualization.
Nonfarm payroll jobs grew by 1.6% between December 2012 and December 2013.
A summary of where Americans stand on ten key issues likely to come up in President Obama's State of the Union address.
Globally, incomes have risen fastest for the very well-off and the bottom two-thirds of the world's people, but have stagnated or fallen for the "global upper middle class."
The value in today's dollars of the annual poll tax once imposed by several Southern states.
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