The United States is similar to developing countries in the percentage of mothers who give birth before their child is due, according to the World Health Organization and other agencies.

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U.S. Lags in Global Measure of Preterm Births

The number of Republican voters has risen slightly from 2008, but the percentage of eligible voters at the polls has decreased.

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Primary Turnout Could Signal Trouble for G.O.P.

Since the Defense Department faces the need to reduce expenditures, here is one suggested new year’s resolution: Make the military services have a mandatory 80 percent confidence level in their estimated costs of a new weapons systems before major funding is approved. What is a “confidence level?” the average taxpayer might ask. It is something the services have been doing for years but without much publicity. It is the percentage guesstimate by which the military service believes the cost it puts forward for a new, major acquisition will actually hit that figure. Read full article > >

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Challenging the Navy’s numbers

Education Minister Leighton Andrews refuses to accept a fall in the percentage of top grade A-levels, citing a record performance in the Welsh Bacc.

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Minister rejects exam grade fall

The percentage of business cases on the Supreme Court docket has grown, as has the percentage won by business interests.

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Justices Offer Receptive Ear to Business Interests

Execution by lethal injection has shone a harsh light on the complicity of health professionals – physicians, nurses and paramedics – in carrying out capital punishment. In a 2001 survey in the prestigious journal, Archives of Internal Medicine , an astonishing 41 percent of physicians surveyed said that they would assist or even carry out an execution by lethal injection and there is little evidence that the percentage has changed significantly since then. Deborah W. read more

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Practicing Medicine on Death Row

With great power comes great responsibility. Walmart, the world’s largest grocer, announced Thursday that the company aims to double the percentage of locally grown produce sold in its U.S. stores to 9 percent, by the end of 2015. In Canada, Walmart is…

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Walmart Expands Local Produce Push