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• Position: NEWS & TRENDS

16

AGE AT WHICH AUSTRIANS can vote. Austria has the lowest national voting age of the 27 countries in the European Union.

SOURCE: TIME

8,654

NUMBER OF STUDENTS taking the AP Latin exam in 2007--almost double the number a decade ago, reflecting a resurgence of Latin in U.S. schools.

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

75%

PERCENTAGE OF Americans surveyed who say things are going badly in the United States.

SOURCE: CNN/OPINION RESEARCH

24.5

AMOUNT, IN METRIC tons, of greenhouse gases produced each year by the average American. (See p. 14.)

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

20

NUMBER OF YEARS that a 24-year-oral journalism...