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		<title>The U.S. ranks 10th in economic freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s 2012 Index of Economic Freedom, the United States has an economic freedom score of 76.3, which makes the United States rank tenth out of one hundred seventy-nine ranked countries. Hong Kong ranks first, with an economic freedom score of 89.9. In 2011, the United States ranked ninth, with a score [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rankingamerica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5856820&amp;post=5129&amp;subd=rankingamerica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. ranks 2nd in tomatoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, in 2010 the United States produced 12,902,000 metric tonnes of tomatoes, or 11.7% of the world&#8217;s total tomato production. That was enough to make the United States rank second in that category. China ranked first, producing 41,864,750 tonnes, or 37.9% of the world&#8217;s total [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rankingamerica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5856820&amp;post=5124&amp;subd=rankingamerica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. ranks 69th in approval of UN leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health and Welfare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Gallup, forty-two percent of Americans approve of the leadership of the United Nations, which makes the United States tied for sixty-ninth in that category with Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Serbia, and Georgia. Sierra Leone ranks first, with eighty-six percent of the population approving of the leadership of the United Nations. Filed under: Health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rankingamerica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5856820&amp;post=5120&amp;subd=rankingamerica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. ranks 24th in perceived honesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Transparency International, in 2011 the United States has a perceived corruption score of 7.1 (with a score of 10.0 being perceived as very clean), which makes the United States rank twenty-fourth out of one hundred eighty three countries ranked in that category. New Zealand ranks first, with a score of 9.5. As reported [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rankingamerica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5856820&amp;post=5115&amp;subd=rankingamerica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. ranks 1st in non-methane VOC emissions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment and Natural Resources]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the World Resources Institute, in 2000 (the most recent year available on their website) the United States emitted 19,042.50 metric tonnes of non-methane volatile organic compounds, which is enough to make the United States rank first in that category out of 217 ranked countries. Filed under: Environment and Natural Resources, Health and Welfare, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rankingamerica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5856820&amp;post=5111&amp;subd=rankingamerica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. ranks 3rd in human development</title>
		<link>http://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/the-u-s-ranks-3rd-in-human-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the United Nations&#8217; 2011 Human Development Index, the United States has a human development score of 0.910, which makes the United States tied for third with Netherlands in that category. Norway ranks first, with a human development score of 0.943. The indicators that the United Nations considers when building its index are health, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rankingamerica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5856820&amp;post=5108&amp;subd=rankingamerica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. ranks 59th in women and girls</title>
		<link>http://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/the-u-s-ranks-59th-in-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health and Welfare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the World Bank, in 2010 the female population in the United States accounted for 50.7% of the total population, which made the United States tied for fifty-ninth in that category with Eritrea, Central African Republic, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Benin, Mexico, Belize, and the Kyrgyz Republic. Latvia and Ukraine ranked first, with females accounting for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rankingamerica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5856820&amp;post=5104&amp;subd=rankingamerica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. ranks 2nd in extinct birds</title>
		<link>http://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/the-u-s-ranks-2nd-in-extinct-birds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment and Natural Resources]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the World Resources Institute, there are nineteen extinct bird species in the United States, or 17.6% of all extinct bird species, which makes the United States rank second in the world in that category. Mauritius ranks first, with 21 extinct bird species, or 19.4% of the world&#8217;s total. Filed under: Environment and Natural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rankingamerica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5856820&amp;post=5097&amp;subd=rankingamerica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. balance of trade, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The U.S. ranks 1st in maize oil production</title>
		<link>http://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/the-u-s-ranks-1st-in-maize-oil-production/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Drink]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[corn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corn oil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, in 2009 the United States produced 1,099,300 tonnes of maize oil, or 44.6% of the world&#8217;s total maize oil production. That was enough to make the United States rank first in that category. Filed under: agriculture, Food and Drink, Ranking of 1 Tagged: corn, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rankingamerica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5856820&amp;post=5092&amp;subd=rankingamerica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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