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Dec 15, 2006. Nearly Half of our Lives Spent with TV, Radio, Internet, Newspapers, According to Census Bureau Publication

Adults and teens will spend nearly five months (3,518 hours) next year watching television, surfing the Internet, reading daily newspapers and listening to personal music devices. That�s only one of thousands of nuggets of information on Americana and the world in the U.S. Census Bureau�s Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007.

The Statistical Abstract includes topics as diverse as condo and mobile home sales to new tables on alternative work schedules and the North American cruise industry. Overall, the book features more than 1,400 tables and charts on social, political and economic facts about the United States, and the latest available international statistics.

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