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  2. College admissions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For students entering college directly after high school, the process typically begins in eleventh grade, with most applications submitted during twelfth grade. [2] Deadlines vary, with Early Decision or Early Action applications often due in October or November, and regular decision applications in December or January.

  3. Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Number in Poverty and Poverty Rate: 1959 to 2017. The US. In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications. Based on poverty measures used by the Census Bureau (which exclude non-cash factors such as food stamps or medical care or public housing), America had 37 million people in poverty in 2023; this is 11 percent of population. [1]

  4. Wind power - Wikipedia

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    Wind energy penetration is the fraction of energy produced by wind compared with the total generation. Wind power's share of worldwide electricity usage in 2021 was almost 7%, [55] up from 3.5% in 2015. [56] [57] There is no generally accepted maximum level of wind penetration.

  5. Detroit - Wikipedia

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    According to a 2007 analysis, Detroit officials note about 65 to 70 percent of homicides in the city were drug related, [203] with the rate of unsolved murders roughly 70%. [166] Although the rate of violent crime dropped 11% in 2008, [204] violent crime in Detroit has not declined as much as the national average from 2007 to 2011. [205]

  6. Nuclear reactor - Wikipedia

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    Recycling spent fuel is the core of its design and it therefore produces only a fraction of the waste of current reactors. [99] The pebble-bed reactor, a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGCR), is designed so high temperatures reduce power output by Doppler broadening of the fuel's neutron cross-section. It uses ceramic fuels so its safe ...

  7. Georgia (country) - Wikipedia

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    Religious minorities of Georgia include Muslims (10.7 percent), Armenian Christians (2.9 percent) and Roman Catholics (0.5 percent). [ 340 ] [ e ] 0.7 percent of those recorded in the 2014 census declared themselves to be adherents of other religions, 1.2 percent refused or did not state their religion and 0.5 percent declared no religion at all.

  8. Polystyrene - Wikipedia

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    Within the rubber phase, the polystyrene phase is assembled into domains. This causes physical cross-linking on a microscopic level. When the material is heated above the glass transition point, the domains disintegrate, the cross-linking is temporarily suspended and the material can be processed like a thermoplastic. [66]

  9. Internment of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese represented "over 90 percent of the carpenters, nearly all of the transportation workers, and a significant portion of the agricultural laborers" on the islands. [70] General Delos Carleton Emmons , the military governor of Hawaii, also argued that Japanese labor was "'absolutely essential' for rebuilding the defenses destroyed at ...