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Boulder, Colo., remains the U.S. metro area with the lowest obesity rate in the U.S. for the third year in a row, at 12.5% in 2012. Obesity remains highest in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, at 38.5%.

The Houston metro area had the highest Job Creation Index score among the 50 largest metro areas in 2012, while Riverside, Calif., had the lowest.

Over the past decade the word "fear" has become all too familiar. After 9/11, critics of the war on terror called it fear-mongering. After the financial crash in 2008, living in a climate of fear became the lot of millions of people who lost ...

Lancaster, Pa., tops a list of 190 U.S. metropolitan areas with the highest well-being, while Huntington-Ashland, W.Va.-Ky.-Ohio, comes in last. San Jose, Calif., has the highest well-being across large metro areas.

Principal Reflections On Student Engagement -- Using The Gallup Student Poll

Americans name Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as the Most Admired Woman and Most Admired Man alive in the world today. Clinton has been the Most Admired Woman 11 years straight, Obama the Most Admired Man five years in a row.

Twenty-eight percent of U.S. smokers say secondhand smoke is very harmful to adults, compared with 63% of nonsmokers. Sixty percent of smokers say that smoking is very harmful to adults who smoke, compared with 86% of nonsmokers.

The Washington, D.C., metro area was more confident about the economy last year than were residents in any of the 50 largest U.S. metro areas. The Buffalo and Tampa-St. Petersburg areas had the lowest economic confidence.

Half of adults in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, were uninsured in 2011 -- about 10 times the rates found in four Massachusetts metro areas. Uninsured rates tend to be higher in metro areas with large Hispanic populations.

Democrats and, to a lesser degree, independents continue to buoy U.S. economic confidence in September. These groups' confidence rose at the start of the Democratic National Convention, and has remained elevated.