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Op-Ed Contributor - The Mismeasure of Woman - NYTimes.com
On the progress or lack thereof in women's equality in society.
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in 1983, women earned only 64 cents for every dollar earned by a man
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Today? Women earn just 77 cents. By other measures, women’s gains have stalled: board seats and corporate officer posts have been flat — or declined in recent years
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As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping Up - NYTimes.com
Silly jurors and the internet make for mad judges and lawyers.
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The use of BlackBerrys and iPhones by jurors gathering and sending out information about cases is wreaking havoc on trials around the country
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They are required to reach a verdict based on only the facts the judge has decided are admissible, and they are not supposed to see evidence that has been excluded as prejudicial.
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Editorial - The Commander’s Duty Done - NYTimes.com
It was a small strategic footnote during the Bush administration, but it REALLY bothered me that they went so far as to try and manipulate things by banning coverage of the dead. WTF. I'm really glad this administration has repealed that.
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Without uttering a public word, Mr. Obama erased President George W. Bush’s shameful attempts to hide the pain of war from Americans and to shield himself from paying public tribute to the thousands who died
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The Bush policy was to prohibit any news media coverage of the returning war dead and to never show the president within a camera-lens’ length of the dolorous homecomings.
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Helping Elders Along the Digital Path - NYTimes.com
Technology for the elderly. Less on devices, more on usage and social acceptance.
State of the Art - New (and Improved) Models From Motorola, HTC and BlackBerry - NYTimes.com
Pogue on the new releases of the Hero, Cliq, and Storm 2. Even though he's an Apple apologist (read Apple whore), he does decent (p)reviews.
New Chief Positions Motorola for a Rebound - NYTimes.com
Motorola apparently has decent management now.
Magazine Preview - The Obamas’ Marriage - NYTimes.com
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They will discern whether politics can bring about the kind of change they have longed for and promised to others, or whether the compromises and defeats are too great.
Op-Ed Columnist - Let Congress Go Without Insurance - NYTimes.com
Info on the history of health reform, in addition to the op-ed.
A Thin Line Separates Insider Trading and Legal Research - NYTimes.com
Distinguishing between insider trading and good research. New case highlights the difficulty of identifying which is which.
For Car Buyers, the Brand Romance Is Gone - NYTimes.com
Massive shift away from brand loyalty. Graph of change since the 1980s is shocking.
Op-Ed Contributor - The High Cost of Empty Prisons - NYTimes.com
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This measure will further reduce New York’s prison population, which has already declined, in the past 10 years, from about 71,600 in 1999 to about 59,300 today.
Virus Found in Many With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - NYTimes.com
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68 of 101 patients with the syndrome, or 67 percent, were infected with an infectious virus, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, or XMRV. By contrast, only 3.7 percent of 218 healthy people were infected.
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XMRV is a retrovirus, a member of the same family of viruses as the AIDS virus. These viruses carry their genetic information in RNA rather than DNA, and they insert themselves into their hosts’ genetic material and stay for life.
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It’s a Fork, It’s a Spoon, It’s a ... Weapon? - NYTimes.com
On zero-tolerance bans of "weapons" in schools.
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a third-grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother had sent a birthday cake to school, along with a knife to cut it
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Education experts say that zero-tolerance policies initially allowed authorities more leeway in punishing students, but were applied in a discriminatory fashion.
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21st Century Babies - The Gift of Life, and Its Price - NYTimes.com
Article on the costs of IVF treatments on families and society.
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The government estimates that caring for premature infants costs $26 billion a year, including $1 billion for IVF babies, expenses that eventually get passed through the system and on to businesses and consumers.
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In 2006, a record 137,085 twins were born in the United States, double the number in 1980. Of that total, 23,284 were the result of IVF, according to government statistics. The number does not include twins born as a result of other fertility treatments.
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Common misconceptions about the Nobel Peace Prize - Yahoo! News
Info regarding the nobel peace prize.
Cases - A Final Round of Therapy, Fulfilling the Needs of 2 - NYTimes.com
On handling death's approach.
Study Looks Into the Health Benefits of Pets - NYTimes.com
New studies being sought for insight on the therapeutic benefits of animals.
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Anecdotes abound on the benefits of companion animals — whether service and therapy animals or family pets — on human health. But in-depth studies have been rare.
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most studies focused on negative interactions, like the ways pets could spread disease
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Skin Deep - Dentists See More Teeth Grinding in Stressful Times - NYTimes.com
Increase in teeth grinding due to stress.
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a rise in the number of teeth grinders
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in San Diego, Dr. Gerald McCracken said that over the last 18 months his number of cases had more than doubled
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Mind - How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect - NYTimes.com
The benefit of the absurd or unsettling.
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Researchers have long known that people cling to their personal biases more tightly when feeling threatened. After thinking about their own inevitable death, they become more patriotic, more religious and less tolerant of outsiders, studies find. When insulted, they profess more loyalty to friends — and when told they’ve done poorly on a trivia test, they even identify more strongly with their school’s winning teams.
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Brain-imaging studies of people evaluating anomalies, or working out unsettling dilemmas, show that activity in an area called the anterior cingulate cortex spikes significantly. The more activation is recorded, the greater the motivation or ability to seek and correct errors in the real world
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