A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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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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