Magazine Sales Continue Downward Trend

American Voices

August 11, 2011 | ISSUE 47•32

Newsstand sales of magazines decreased 9.2 percent in the first half of 2011. What do you think?

Newsstands only use magazines as a loss leader to bolster sales of precious gum.

Theiry Reis
Construction Inspector
That doesn't necessarily mean readership is down. In fact, a single copy of People is read by an average of 228 nail-salon customers.

Hal Stamets
Rasper
Publishers need to tailor their products to a younger audience—for example, by misspelling words, omitting or abusing punctuation, and keeping articles to a manageable 140-character length.

Ella Reichert
Unemployed

U.S. Census Overcounted By 36,000

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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.
Catholic Orgs Sue Over Birth-Control Rule

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Several Catholic institutions, including Notre Dame, are suing the federal government over the Obama administration’s birth control funding mandate.
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The Supreme Court ruled that a set of twins conceived with frozen sperm through in vitro fertilization 18 months after the father's death are not eligible for Social Security survivor benefits.
Karzai Thanks U.S. Taxpayers For Covering Cost Of War

05.22.12 | ISSUE 48•21

In an address given during the NATO summit in Chicago, Afghan president Hamid Karzai thanked the people of the United States for bearing the cost of the war.