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“If I start reading international news, it’ll mean the terrorists have won.” OK, perhaps no one has explicitly said this since Sept. 11. But it would be a plausible summation of Americans’ indifference to foreign news. A study by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press finds an uptick in the number of people closely following overseas news. However, nearly all of this increase has come “among a narrow, highly educated segment of the public.”

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