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Stateline Staff
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010
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Washington, DC, USA. As governors sound the alarm about unbalanced budgets, getting their states back in the black is easier said than done.
Since taking office last year, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has criticized accounting gimmicks and borrowing that, she has said, led to the Grand Canyon State’s current budget “crisis.”
Now Brewer defends her compromise with state legislators, relying on the same type of budget tricks and borrowing until voters decide whether to approve a temporary sales tax increase, reports The Arizona Daily Star.
Brewer has fought with her fellow Republicans in the GOP-led legislature over the sales tax issue for nearly a year. Now that top lawmakers finally agreed to let voters decide whether to hike the tax, any new revenues would come too late to help the state out in its current budget.
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 Andrew Leigh Monday, 08 February 2010
Canberra, ACT, AUS. Why are there so many countries in the world? At the end of World War II, there were 74 nations. Today, the United Nations has 192 members. Proliferating nations are more than an academic curio. As trade ministers and environment ministers know, one of the reasons it is so difficult to strike an international deal these days is because it requires the agreement of a couple of hundred representatives.
In The Size of Nations, Alberto Alesina (Harvard) and Enrico Spolaor |
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 Stephen C. Fehr Monday, 08 February 2010
Washington, DC, USA. A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City knocks down a perception that energy states could recover from the recession faster than non-energy states.
The report, by Mark C. Snead of the bank’s Denver office, says that energy states typically enter recessions late and exit early as energy prices recover along with the rest of the overall national economy.
Snead says “weakness in natural gas prices suggests that a rapid recovery well ahead of the n |
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 TS-Si News Service Sunday, 07 February 2010
Houston, TX, USA. Healthcare providers are pushing toward electronic health records but it is hard to tell how well these complex health information technology systems are implemented and used, writes a health informatics researcher in an American Medical Association (JAMA) commentary.
Doctors and hospitals are racing to take advantage of the billions in federal incentives to digitize health records included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). To improve monitor |
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 TS-Si News Service Sunday, 07 February 2010
Buffalo, NY, USA. James Campbell finds no differences in economic growth, unemployment or income equality among American presidents. Campbell, a professor of political science at the University of Buffalo, has published an analysis that counters the widely publicized work of Princeton political scientist Larry Bartels in his recent book Unequal Democracy. [C1]
Bartels says Democratic presidents have generally done a better job handling the economy, with greater economic growth, lower une |
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 TS-Si News Service Saturday, 06 February 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. An international scientific effort has built a detailed map that shows how the human genome is modified during embryonic development. Billions of data points were analyzed to provide a big picture of the human epigenome during a critical developmental window. This is a significant move towards the targeted differentiation of stem cells into specific organs, a crucial consideration for stem cell therapy.
Scientists at The Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and The Scri |
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Science & Medicine
 TS-Si News Service Friday, 05 February 2010
Seattle, WA, USA. Materials scientists have built a three-dimensional scaffold out of a natural material that mimics the binding sites for stem cells, allowing the cells to reproduce on a clean, biodegradable structure. The... |
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 TS-Si News Service Thursday, 04 February 2010
London, UK, USA. A detailed analysis in BioEssays claims that chemical energy from hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor kick-started early life.
Understanding the origin of life provides a starting point for tracing subse... |
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Living
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TS-Si News Service
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Monday, 01 February 2010
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Cambridge, MA, USA. Technical achievement is worthwhile in its own right, but many believe in the USA also is the key to strengthening the economy and provides the means to compete globally. To do all of this, it is necessa...
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Sunday, 31 January 2010
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Milwaukee, WI, USA. The way a woman negotiates condom use influences how she is perceived by others. Whether it's the man or the woman who suggests using a condom makes no difference to how he or she is viewed. However, how...
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Saturday, 30 January 2010
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Washington, DC, USA. Caught returning from a tryst with his Argentine mistress, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford told the Associated Press that he had met his soul mate. His word choice seemed to suggest that having a d...
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Friday, 29 January 2010
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Berkeley, CA, USA. Some people complain about seemingly smug married couples who refer to themselves as we. But new research suggests that spouses using we-ness language resolve conflicts better than those who don't.
UC Be...
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Thursday, 21 January 2010
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Thursday, 21 January 2010
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Monday, 18 January 2010
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Sunday, 17 January 2010
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Opinion
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young
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Thursday, 04 February 2010
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Lancaster, PA, USA. Voters, political scientist V.O. Key famously remarked, are not fools. By and large that’s true. The specious corollary drawn by many politicians, however, is not so true.
Voters are not fools. Politi...
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Suzan Cooke
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010
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Texas, USA. PBS was bountiful last night. Show about Machu Picchu, the wonders of the planet and a an Independent Lens film. The film was part of Black History Month and pointed out how prior to World War II there was a fe...
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Lisa Jain Thompson
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Sunday, 31 January 2010
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Fairfax, VA, USA. I am not a relationship coach. I will not center your spirituality. I certainly am not, and never have been, the Messiah of Hope or the Fountain of Unlimited Possibility. I only wish I was Lady GaGa, but t...
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Rev. Cathryn Platine
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Saturday, 30 January 2010
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Palenville, NY, USA. I come from two old New England families, on both sides of my family tree is a Salem Witchcraft victim, Susanna Martin on my mother’s side, [N2] Sarah Good on my father’s. [N3] I have identified mys...
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Evangelina Carters
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Thursday, 28 January 2010
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Linda Riley
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Monday, 25 January 2010
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Sunday, 24 January 2010
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Evangelina Carters
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Sunday, 24 January 2010
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The Nation
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