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Right-to-Die: A New Debate Battleground
Jake Grovum (Stateline)
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Boston, MA, USA. “Right-to-die” advocates have mounted a high-profile initiative campaign in what might seem to be unlikely territory: heavily Catholic Massachusetts.

On Election Day, voters in the Bay State will consider whether to approve the Death With Dignity Act, a measure that would make Massachusetts just the third state in the country to formally approve physician-assisted suicide.


A Marijuana Revolt?
Maggie Clark (Stateline)
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Seattle WA, USA. Voters in Washington, Oregon and Colorado will decide if they want to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana consumption and production.

Passage would conflict with federal law, which classifies marijuana as a controlled substance with no acceptable medical use. All three states already allow medicinal marijuana use, also against federal law.

Funding for New School Year Down in Half of States
Christine Vestal (Stateline)
Monday, 10 September 2012
Washington, DC, USA. Five years after the recession began, state funding for elementary and high school education remains vastly lower than it was in 2008.

Despite an uptick in state revenues, budgets for the coming school year are lower than they were last year in half of all states, according to a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

People Mix Science and Supernatural to Explain the Unknown
TS-Si News Service
Friday, 31 August 2012
Austin, TX, USA. Reliance on supernatural explanations for major life events, such as death and illness, often increases rather than declines with age, according to a new study.

Contrary to the traditional accounts of cognitive development, this research shows that people can interpret the same events using a mix of natural and supernatural explanations, while the proportion can vary for individual minds.

Buffy Effect Upends Negative Media Stereotypes About Women
TS-Si News Service
Thursday, 30 August 2012
Washington, DC, USA. Men and women are less likely to experience negative effects to sexually violent media when watching a positive portrayal of a strong female character.

A study shows that this is true even when that female character is a victim of sexual violence, a finding that shows an audence can process popular media portrayals in ways that often are more subtle than accounted for by political critics.

Disruptive Life Events and Poverty Behind Many US Abortions
TS-Si News Service
Monday, 27 August 2012
New York, NY, USA. Seldom discussed facts behind American abortion statistics highlight the effects of disruptive events, and their links to poverty and contraceptive use.

Among the eleven disruptive events were job loss, separation, falling behind on rental or mortgage payments, death of a close friend, a serious health problem, a partner being sent to prison, and becoming a victim of crime.

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Monday, 27 August 2012
Teresa Wiltz (Stateline)
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Lady Anne Clifford's Challenge to Male Authority
TS-Si News Service
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK. Lady Anne Clifford, a 17th century aristocrat, left manuscript evidence of how women challenged male authority in the Britain of her time.

Clifford’s 600,000-word Great Books of Record documents the trials and triumphs of her family dynasty over six centuries and her bitter battle to inherit castles and villages across northern England.

Ethically Relevant Differences: Prenatal Whole Genome Sequencing
TS-Si News Service
Monday, 13 August 2012
Garrison, NY, USA. A report says that affordable and accessible whole genome sequencing will result in massive amounts of information with meanings we don't yet understand.

The conclusions are from an article in the Hastings Center Report by current or former scholars at the Department of Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

No Child Left Behind: Not Dead Yet
Ben Wieder (Stateline)
Monday, 13 August 2012
Washington, DC, USA. Most states have received waivers from the federal No Child Left Behind law, but some have found flexibility harder to come by.

With the majority of states no longer abiding by the ten-year old federal law, some experts have concluded that it has effectively been overturned. But some of the remaining 17 states are finding that the feds can be pretty stubborn when it comes to allowing wholesale changes in the law’s provisions.

How Sexual Infidelity Accusations Can Trigger Heterosexual Domestic Violence
TS-Si News Service
Sunday, 05 August 2012
Columbus, OH, USA. Research shows that sexual infidelity accusations made by one or both of the partners in a heterosexual domestic relationship can trigger felony violence.

Researchers monitored jailhouse phone calls between men charged with felony domestic violence, for the first time allowing visibility into what exactly had triggered episodes of violent abuse. Among the factors, drug or alcohol use was often involved.

Reprieve Likely for Food Stamp Program
Jake Grovum (Stateline)
Sunday, 05 August 2012
Washington, DC, USA. Threatened budget cuts would cut off food stamps for millions in states all over the country, but a Congressional stalemate may stave off the pain.

Capitol Hill inaction has been blamed for everything from near-shutdowns of the federal government to a historic downgrade in the U.S. credit rating, but a stalemate over a sweeping farm bill set back the clock on impending budget cuts that worries states and safety net advocates around the country.

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Monday, 30 July 2012
Ben Wieder (Stateline)
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Melissa Maynard (Stateline)
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
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Thursday, 19 July 2012
Ben Wieder (Stateline)
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Christine Vestal (Stateline)
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Teresa Wiltz (Stateline)
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
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