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    The Music Downloading Population Shoots Up 40% in a Half Year

    37 Million Adults and Teenagers have used the Internet to Collect Songs Washington, D.C., (Tuesday, April 24) — Close to 30 million American adults have downloaded music files over the Internet and it has been one of the fastest growing Internet activities in the past half-year, especially among men. Surveys by the Pew Internet & […]

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    Fear Of Online Crime

    Americans support FBI interception of criminal suspects’ email and new laws to protect online privacy (Washington, D.C., April 2) — Americans are deeply worried about criminal activity on the Internet, and their revulsion at child pornography is by far their biggest fear. Some 92% of Americans say they are concerned about child pornography on the […]

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    Testimony to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy

    Testimony to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy By Lee Rainie, Director Pew Internet & American Life Project March 26, 2001 Good afternoon. My name is Lee Rainie and I am the Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a research organization fully funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts […]

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    Americans Blame Greed and Clueless Executives for the Dot-com Meltdown

    (Washington, D.C., March 16) — As the fortunes of Internet companies have fallen in recent months, Americans who have followed these developments believe that the difficulties of dot-coms are attributable to overeager investors looking for quick profits and poor business plans by dot-com entrepreneurs. A smaller number of Americans say that the youth and inexperience […]

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    More Online, Doing More

    (Washington, D.C., February 18) — The number of American adults with Internet access grew by 16 million in the last six months of 2000, as women, minorities, and families with modest incomes continued to surge online. In all, more than 104 million adults had access to the Internet at the end of 2000, according to […]

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    Testimony to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

    Testimony to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Workgroup on National Health Information Infrastructure and the Workgroup on Health Statistics for the 21st CenturyBy Lee Rainie Director — Pew Internet & American Life ProjectJanuary 11, 2001 Good morning. It is an honor to be here commenting on this critically important initiative of the […]