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...United States themselves," wrote Walt Whitman, "are essentially the greatest poem." That epic is rewritten by each generation but also revised every 11 seconds when a new American enters the population. On the eve of what could be a transformational election, we recently recorded the arrival of the 300 millionth American. The proximity of those two events created the perfect moment to launch what TIME expects will be an annual feature called "America by the Numbers," an illustrated look at who we are as a nation--and where we're going. It is TIME 's first cover story told principally...
...might be the 300 millionth American. This is the kind of thought - pretty much the only thought - that can sustain you throughout a very long naturalization ceremony, most of which is spent waiting. All of which comes after a very long naturalization application process, most of which is also spent waiting - punctuated by a brief moment of excitement when you swear you have not engaged in prostitution, Communist party membership or genocide. That...
...like saying that you have to stop loving your parents once you get married. Heaven forfend that you could love two countries, even if one just looks like the other but with fewer rivers and more wombats.) Someone's got to be the 300 millionth American...
...millionth American will be born this month. The only major industrial nation experiencing a population boom--due mostly to immigration--the U.S. will probably hit 400 million...
...measure of the G-factor can be plugged into a power series to calculate the binding energy of atoms, revealing that the binding energy is actually a millionth of a percent weaker than previously thought...