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| dailytees.com |
We can't tell you precisely why several U.S. senators, including Jeff "Pond Scum" Flake, voted against a bill aimed at expanding background checks for gun purchases.
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Sure, the powerful NRA likely had some influence. But how could anyone vote against something that 90 percent of Americans want?
One possible answer is that the skeptical senators knew the "90 percent" figure has always been soft. That's certainly true of Arizona, whose residents supported a general background check expansion by 70 percent, not 90.
See also: Jeff Flake Thinks His Popularity Is "Somewhere Just Below Pond Scum"
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New Year's resolutions are so yesterday. 
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But, John Norcross, a psychology professor at the University of Scranton and author of "Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing your Goals and Resolutions," tells the Boston Globe that studies show that about 60 percent of American adults plan to make a resolution and that 40 percent actually do.
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About 5 to 10 percent of U.S. high-school boys say they've been "physically forced" to have sexual intercourse against their will, according to survey results reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The numbers come from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance report published by the CDC on June 8, and are based on student-reported answers to 2011 national and state surveys.
Click here to see the report. The results concerning high-school students and forced sex can be seen on pages 66-68.
Erin Hunter, a CDC press-office worker, couldn't explain the findings when asked if they made sense to her.
"Um, well, I mean I can think of a, uh -- there's nothing in the question that talks about any kind of gender, whether it would be male or female," she responded.
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