The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15 and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
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Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
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