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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2 million number of people who pre-ordered the iPhone 5 in its first 24 hours, doubling that of the iPhone 4S 5 million children born using assisted-reproduction technologies since the first test-tube baby 35 years ago MEDIA 200,000 subscribers to the dating website FarmersOnly.com, which features the tagline, City folks just dont get it 1 in 4 ratio of US teens who say they have received a sexually explicit photo on their cell phone and forwarded it to friends $650 million estimated loss in US productivity as a result of people watching the Olympics at work $624 billion value of Apple, based on its stock price in August 2012, most valuable company in history 678 number of texts US cell phone owners send each month 90% youngsters between the age of 8 and 16 who have accessed pornography online, many without meaning to find it and most while doing their homework EDUCATION 12% percentage of US schoolchildren who are chronically absent, missing 1 out of every 10 school days $2 million amount that Obama administration invested for arts education in the 8 of the most poorly performing schools in the country, which achieved dramatic results in just 3 years with students vastly improving their basic academic skills POLITICS 19 million estimated North Koreans who could buy a years worth of food with the $850 million their countrys leader, Kim Jong Un, plans to spend launching a rocket $100 million amount Sheldon Adelson, one of Americas richest men and a Republican, is willing to spend to beat President Obama in an attempt to advance his political, ideological and financial agenda, which is wildly at odds with the nations needs 13% percentage uptick in recent US sales of Winchester rifles, due to peoples fear that the government will make it harder to buy ammunition 132 laws passed by US Congress in 2011 and 2012; 1/5 of the laws concerned naming of post offices 1009 requests from governments worldwide for Twitter users personal information during the second half of 2012 $50.5 billion emergency relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy in a bill passed by US Senate in January 2012 GENDER 77 college courses in Iran that women are barred from attending in 2013 SINGAPORE

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY We are not going to call it a complete success until this results in children Michael Olausson, one of a team of Swedish doctors who performed the worlds first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant MEDIA

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POLITICS It is the triumph of the people, who have decided that they must be involved in the political process of this country Aung San Suu Kyi, after her party (National League for Democracy) won 43 out of 45 available seats in landmark elections in Burma My job is not to worry about those people. Ill never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. Mitt Romney, captured at a private fundraiser, describing the 47% of people who will vote for the President no matter what Freedom of religion is a fundamental tenet of democracy. Its incredibly sad that victims were shot down while exercising that right Sapreet Kaur, executive director of the Sikh coalition, after a shooter killed six worshippers at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee Rape is rape President Obama, after Missouri Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin questioned whether women can get pregnant from legitimate rape Not spending more than you collect-its astonishing that this simple fact leads to such debates Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, insisting that indebted countries such as Greece and Spain implement austerity programs to fix their finances These practices have no basis in Science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery Jerry Brown, governor of California, after signing a bill outlawing therapies that claim to turn gay minors into heterosexuals GENDER No nation can achieve peace, stability and economic growth if half the population is not empowered Hillary Clinton, calling for more economic opportunity for women in Afghanistan The ability to serve has very little to do with gender. It has everything to do with heart, character ability determination and dedication Mary Jennings Hegar, combat helicopter pilot and one of four women who joined with ACLU to sue the Department of Defense for barring women from certain combat roles Its impossible to retouch women out of reality Ewa Bjorling, Swedish Trade Minister after Swedish furniture colossus Ikea removed women from photos in catalogs shipped to Saudi Arabia Not everyone is going to be able to be a combat soldier, but everyone deserves a chance Leon Panetta, Defense Secretary, after lifting the US military ban on women in combat SINGAPORE