On Monday, the Obama administration announced it is ending its fight to keep age restrictions on the morning-after pill. The …
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Obama Unveils Details of New Human Brain Mapping Initiative
First the genome, now the brain.
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How Would Preschool for All Work: Is It All About Play or ABCs?
Finding the right balance of structured play for toddlers could be the key to making universal preschool work
Are Medical Marijuana Raids the Price We Must Pay for National Health Care?
While federal agents were raiding a medical marijuana dispensary and the nation’s first pot trade school in Oakland, run by one of California’s most prominent legalization advocates, less than a mile a way, a gunman was murdering seven people at a Christian nursing school. The feds couldn’t have predicted the rampage, but it’s hard …
Obama’s Misguided Crackdown on Medical Marijuana
(Updated) Why is the U.S. government cracking down on medical marijuana, a $1.7 billion business — and one of the few that seems to be thriving in a moribund economy?
What Is Too Gruesome? An Argument for Releasing bin Laden’s Photo
President Obama has decided not to release photos of Osama bin Laden’s body, saying, “That’s not who we are. You know, we don’t trot out this stuff as trophies.”
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Elmo at the White House? Monster Plugs School Lunch Bill
There’s nothing like a furry red creature with a big nose to add a dash of excitement to the churn of bureaucracy.
Politics can be bad for the libido
Republicans suffered a set back last November in more ways than one. A new study appearing today in the medical journal PLOS One shows that, in the hours after Obama was announced the 44th president of the United States, male, college-aged McCain fans experienced an immediate drop in testosterone. For the study, 183 people offered up …