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* Fifty-nine percent of men and 51 percent of women say they have accessed the Internet wirelessly using a laptop or handheld device; 80 percent of 18-29-year-olds say they have done so. (Pew Internet & American Life Project)

* Sixty-four percent say the winter is worse in their area this year than in the recent past. Still, 60 percent feel the media make the weather sound worse than it really is. (Rasmussen Reports)

* Respondents rate the “balloon boy” hoax as the “most ridiculous news story of 2009,” with the breakup of Jon and Kate Gosselin as runner-up.

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