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Americans Spend Half of Their Spare Time Online

According to Netpop I Play, a new report from Media-Screen, broadband users spend an hour and 40 minutes (48% of their spare time) online in a typical weekday, and more than half of that is spent accessing activities related to entertainment and communication.

Hectic Lifestyles Make for Record-Low Election Turnout, Census Bureau Reports

Nearly 5 million registered voters said they did not vote in the 1996 presidential election because they couldn't take off from work or school or were otherwise too busy, contributing heavily to the lowest voter turnout reported in a general election since the Census Bureau began collecting these data in 1964, according to the Commerce Department's Census Bureau.

	Among Americans who were registered but did not vote, more than 1 in 5 told us they didn't go to the polls because they couldn't take time off from work or were too busy -- triple the proportion who gave this reason in 1980.
source:	U.S. Census Bureau

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