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Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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Portland, OR. Anyone in Oregon who wants to buy tablets of Sudafed or Claritin D must have a doctor’s prescription to do so.
Those who live in Oklahoma must submit to an instant online screening before they can walk out of a pharmacy with those products.
The two states are taking aggressive but different approaches to a common and long-standing problem: the production of crystal meth, a highly addictive drug made with a decongestant found in several leading cold and allergy medicines, including Sudafed.
Oregon’s approach has alarmed the pharmaceuticals industry, which is lobbying hard in other states in favor of Oklahoma’s approach — even offering to pay for it. Either way, the purchase of cold medicines by meth makers is likely to become much trickier.
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 Stateline Staff Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Washington, DC, USA. Officials from 48 states last week unveiled a set of proposed education standards for K-12 schools nationwide, taking a key step to guarantee that students in one part of the country build the same skills as those in another. Now comes the hard part, as states must decide whether they want to adopt those standards.
Alaska and Texas have already said no. The two states were the only ones not to participate in a study group convened by the National Governors Associatio |
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 Sharon Gaughan Monday, 15 March 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. The existence of transsexuality is beyond dispute, as evidenced by the large absolute numbers of people who are hormonally reconstituted, surgically corrected, and successfully transitioned into society.
Gender theorists obfuscate, blog posters dispute, and tradition-bound academic scientists dither in career-driven timidity. Nonetheless, research into the causes of the transsexual birth condition has moved beyond simplistic behavioral analysis, which often misconceives |
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 TS-Si News Service Monday, 15 March 2010
Chicago, IL, USA. Outgoing hospital physicians hand off important information to their replacements in a brief shift change meeting. A new study of this process says the most important information is not fully conveyed in a majority of cases, even as physicians rate their communication as successful.
The research, by University of Chicago researchers in the journal Pediatrics, highlights the importance of educating doctors about successful communication skills during hand-offs. The resul |
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 TS-Si News Service Sunday, 14 March 2010
Geneva, Switzerland. A report in the journal Nature provides a framework for understanding of the impact of genetic variations in cellular interactions.
This approach has important implications for the understanding of human disorders and wide implications for human health. It is well known that DNA variants affecting gene activity may be responsible for disease susceptibility, primarily to common pathologies such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and asthma. Understanding of how such subtle differences modulate gene expression is bound to accelerate the understanding of all cellular mechanisms, enabling faster and more focused developme |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 14 March 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. I sing the body electric, the miracle of consciousness that resides in seven million human individuals on this planet and numerous other species we prefer to ignore. Others may write of the great unwashed umbrella of gender theory, the Chicks with Dicks hookers, the performance of Drag Queens, the political agendas of Transgender Activists, the public theater of youthful genderfuckers, and the purity and excess of transvestite purpose.
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Science & Medicine
 TS-Si News Service Saturday, 13 March 2010
Washington, DC, USA. The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has launched an online tool to help educators teach the next generation of nurses and physician assistants about genetics and genomics. NHGRI is a pa... |
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 TS-Si News Service Friday, 12 March 2010
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Scientists have identified a fundamental difference between female and male cells that control the development of sexual traits. The scientists have named the
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Saturday, 13 March 2010
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Seattle, WA, USA. Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days.
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Friday, 12 March 2010
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San Diego, CA, USA. For all those people dismayed by the scenes on television of looting in disaster-struck zones, whether the location be be Chili, Haiti, or elsewhere, take heart: Good acts — genuine acts of kindness, ...
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Thursday, 11 March 2010
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Washington, DC, USA. Indiana soon could join at least 11 other states and allow residents to bring their guns to work, as long as they are stored out of sight in their cars. But a shooting in Portage, Ind., last week — in...
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Monday, 08 March 2010
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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Scientists have pinpointed how a key hormone helps animals to recognize others by their smell.
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have shown that the hormone Arginine vasopressin (AVP) help...
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Sunday, 07 March 2010
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Stateline Staff
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Saturday, 06 March 2010
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Saturday, 06 March 2010
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Melissa Maynard
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Friday, 05 March 2010
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Opinion
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Kirsten Oakley
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Saturday, 13 March 2010
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Western Sydney, NSW, AUS. Our heroes have always been flawed. Heathcliff was a vengeful misanthrope with necrophiliac tendencies. Mr Knightley was an annoying elitist who belittled his heroine. Mr Darcy was essentially a ba...
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Brendon O'Connor
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Sunday, 07 March 2010
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Sydney, NSW, AUS. I am as concerned as the next inner city liberal about right-wing militias in America.
The latest group to come to attention are the Oath Keepers: a militia made up of current and ex-military personnel an...
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Kirsten Oakley
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Saturday, 06 March 2010
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Western Sydney, NSW, AUS. Our teenagers are becoming increasingly alienated. Their existence within their technology defined lives is one of segregation. Isolated by the technology that continually accompanies them, they ha...
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Suzan Cooke
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Thursday, 04 March 2010
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Texas, USA. Sharon, a friend of mine as well as one of the editors over at TS-SI suggested that perhaps I should define Christo-fascism as people react rather harshly to my using that phrase.
I am an atheist.
That means...
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Evangelina Carters
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010
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Lisa Jain Thompson
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010
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David Fisher
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Monday, 01 March 2010
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Lisa Jain Thompson
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Sunday, 28 February 2010
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Lisa Jain Thompson
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010
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