Cancer Rate Declines For First Time

American Voices

December 2, 2008 | ISSUE 44•49

For the first time since statistics on the disease have been tracked, the cancer rate in the United States has declined. What do you think?

I think we owe this in large part to many states banning cancer in bars and other public places.

Rich Samuels
Unemployed
Cancer rates are going down? Great, I'll cancel my mammogram right now.

Shana Young
Attorney
This is really great news for our statisticians. You should have seen how depressed the place was when we got our 2008 rape numbers back.

Paul Notarile
Research Analyst

U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

05.25.12 |

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location.
'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Series Reaches 10 Million Sales

05.25.12 | ISSUE 48•22

Publishing house Vintage has sold 10 million copies of the erotica trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey in multiple formats in an astonishing six weeks.
Suspect Arrested In Etan Patz Case

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•22

A suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first missing child to be put on a milk carton, was taken into custody.
U.S. Census Overcounted By 36,000

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

A survey revealed that the 2010 census counted an extra 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, because of duplicate forms and deaths, which is down from the 0.49 percent overcount in the 2000 census.
Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.