The Pew Global Attitudes Project recently released the results of a survey suggesting that the career-oriented woman is globally accepted nowadays.

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Diplomats from countries where high proportions of people hated the U.S. (according to a recent Pew Global Attitudes Project) were more likely to rack up unpaid parking tickets.

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The survey by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project found that text messaging is now a widespread global phenomenon: In the countries polled, 75% of cell phone owners say they text.

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Indeed, recent polling by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project shows that confidence in bin Laden was slumping in the Islamic world, ranging from 22% in Egypt to 1% among Lebanese Muslims.

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