Contributed by Bruce Emmert on May 29, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In the 2000 summer Olympics, the USA women’s softball team won its second gold-medal.  Lisa Fernandez is their pitcher.  One commentator says that she is  “arguably the best women’s softball pitcher the world has ever seen. She has found a source of strength and support that bridges all the highs
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Hispanics remain the USA’s fastest-growing minority group, but most of the population increase comes from births here rather than immigration, according to the Census Bureau. 60% of the 1.3 million new Hispanics in ‘05 are U.S. citizens by birth. In effect, even if immigration came to a standstill,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Is There A Hell?   A recent USA Today (reported in the 10/31/97 issue) poll discovered 52% of adults are certain that there is a hell, and 27% think there might be.  48% think it will be a real place where people suffer eternal torment, with 46% thinking it will be an anguished state of existence
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
                
                
                
                    Origins On The Mind: A recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds 75% of Americans have thought at least a moderate amount about human origins, and 66% say it matters to them which theory is correct. Americans are more likely to endorse a purely creationist view than an evolutionary one. The majority
                    
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                    Illustration from USA TODAY September 13, 2007 edition page 11a “Live and Let Live – Public opinion polls reflect what many people see in their daily lives: When it comes to gay rights, issues of race and beyond, the USA has become a more tolerant nation over the past 25 years.” (See
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
                
                
                
                    American Baptist Churches USA is expected to lose several hundred churches over homosexuality. It may become the biggest church exodus from any
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Keep The Commandments: A recent USA Today/CNN /Gallup poll shows that 77% of Americans oppose the court order requiring the removal of the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 13, 2007
                
                
                
                    In a 1998 USA Weekend exclusive survey of more than a quarter million teens -- one of the most extensive ever -- teens responded honestly about tackling their identity crisis.  
	An unprecedented 272,400 students wrote in and confessed their short-comings and exposed their passion to improve
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Hensley on Oct 31, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Each day across the USA 50,000 people quit their jobs. In a recent survey of workers across the USA, nearly 85% said that they could work harder at their job. More than half claimed they could double their effectiveness "if
                    
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