TV viewing is on the rise, continuing to increase despite competition, according to Nielson Media Research, which found a three-minute rise in total average time a household watched TV from 2005 to 2006.

• At eight hours and 14 minutes a day, households are tuned in more than ever before.
• On an individual level, the average amount of TV watched also increased three minutes a day, marking another high.
• Teenagers, those assumed to be spending the most time with the web and iPods, have not abandoned TV just yet.
• As a whole the age set (12-17) has increased its TV viewing, up five minutes, or 3%, for the full day compared to the 2004 to 2005 TV year. 

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• 63% of Georgians declared their support for research on stem cells using donated embryos from fertility clinics that would otherwise be discarded.
  • 53% supported "therapeutic cloning"
• Two Thirds said that any medical research allowed by federal law should be permitted in Georgia.
• 56 said opposition expressed by religious groups, such as the National Catholic Conference or Focus on the Family, had "no effect."

Alaska ranks first in the nation in the rate of women killed by men, according to a report released Wednesday by the Violence Policy Center, a national nonprofit educational foundation that conducts research on violence in America. The study, based on 2004 figures compiled from records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, reports 62 percent of women victims were either wives or intimate acquaintances of their killers. The study shows Alaska had nine women homicides in 2004, giving it a rate of 2.83 homicides per 100,000 people.