Number of the Week: half of U.S. Lives in Household Getting Benefits - Wall Street Journal
26 May 2012, 4:00 am
49.1%: Percent of the population that lives in a household where at least one member received some type of government benefit in the first quarter of 2011. Cutting government spending is no easy task, and it’s made more complicated by recent ...

In U.S., Nearly half Identify as Economically Conservative - Gallup
26 May 2012, 3:24 am
PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans are more than twice as likely to identify themselves as conservative rather than liberal on economic issues, 46% to 20%. The gap is narrower on social issues, but conservatives still outnumber liberals, 38% to 28%. These results ...

Poll: half of Americans call Facebook a fad - Yahoo Finance
25 May 2012, 7:46 pm
half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network's initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network's ...

half A Trillion In Pentagon Budget Cuts Turns Defense Stocks Into Dividend Darlings - Forbes
25 May 2012, 6:56 pm
The Budget Control Act kept the United States in business last August by allowing Congress to raise the debt ceiling and put off details on specific federal budget cuts until November. When the “super committee” blew that deadline for ...

Yosemite’s half Dome cables are up for 2012 - Examiner
25 May 2012, 5:30 pm
Yosemite National Park in California is the crown jewel of the US National Park Service. The signature landmark is called half Dome. Hiking to the top of this 8,842 ft high mountain is the object of many outdoors people. Doing the 16-mile round ...

half of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out as City Shrinks - Bloomberg
24 May 2012, 12:09 pm
You need to enable Javascript to play media on Bloomberg.com Detroit, whose 139 square miles contain 60 percent fewer residents than in 1950, will try to nudge them into a smaller living space by eliminating almost half its streetlights.

Granger leaves in second half of Game 5 with sprained ankle - NBA
22 May 2012, 8:47 pm
MIAMI (AP) -- Indiana forward Danny Granger left the Pacers' Eastern Conference semifinal game against the Miami Heat on Tuesday night early in the second half with a sprained left ankle. The Pacers said Granger would not return. Indiana will ...

half a billion people to use Windows 8 next year -- Ballmer - CNET News
22 May 2012, 12:04 pm
Analysts expect Windows 8 to flop and PC sales to suffer, but Microsoft's chief executive thinks sales will reach at least 500 million by the end of 2013. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer predicts that more than 500 million people will be using ...

Celtics Surge to Grab Hold of Second half and Series - New York Times
21 May 2012, 11:33 pm
BOSTON — In a series characterized by striking ebbs and flows, one constant has remained: the team that wins the third quarter wins the game. That stood true in the first four games of the Eastern Conference semifinal series between the Boston ...

Two and a half Men’ Aims to Lift Thursday - New York Times
16 May 2012, 8:11 pm
A YEAR ago, the television industry was abuzz about the CBS decision to keep the popular series “Two and a half Men” on the air by replacing Charlie Sheen with Ashton Kutcher. A year later, all eyes are on “Men” again as CBS readies a ...