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PTSD Affecting U.S. Soldiers More Than British

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Jun. 23 (Research) - Combat stress is still a murky and sometimes taboo element of soldiering, but one of the strangest discoveries is that the strain isn’t evenly spread among vets from different countries. For example: A far higher percentage of American soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder after combat in Iraq and Afghanistan than British soldiers do.

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Federal Contractors May Be Told to Disclose Donations

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Apr. 29 (Special Report) - In an end run around the “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision it disliked, the Obama administration is considering having all federal contractors disclose their political donations

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Texas Children: Canaries in the Coal Mine

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Pamela Oldham - Jan. 25 (Special Report) - A report by the nonpartisan Texans Care for Children finds that glaring social problems borne by Texas' children have resulted from its state government's policies.

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Following the Money a Year After Citizens United

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Jan. 20 (Special Report) - Observers thought heaps of anonymous cash would flood U.S. campaign coffers after the controversial Supreme Court decision. They were right.

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Academics Link Violent Rhetoric With Violent Acts

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Jan. 13 (Special Report) - People predisposed to aggressive behavior in their everyday lives (as measured by a standard psychological screening) were in fact more responsive to the violent rhetoric. Low-aggression citizens reacted the opposite way.

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Healthier hospital food - for us and the Earth

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:34:59 -0800

Miller-McCune - Jan. 10 - “Traditionally, food service in health care systems has been primarily about nutrition,” says Lucia Sayre, co-director of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. “One of the big goals of our project is to integrate the nutrition but also the environmental effects of how we grow our food, package it, transport it.” Sayre's organization is currently working to bring sustainable and locally grown foods to hospitals in the U.S. through initiatives like the Balanced Menus program. Hospitals participating in the program aim to reduce servings of meat by 20% over a one year period - which ultimately helps them save money.

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The Ultra-Imperial Presidency

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Melinda Burns - Dec. 16 (Interview) - Yale’s Bruce Ackerman, a constitutional scholar, warns that unilateralism in the “most dangerous branch” of government is setting the stage for a tragic future. Bruce Ackerman discusses how far the country has strayed from the system the Founding Father

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When Migrant Workers Return Home

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Elisabeth Best - Oct. 31 (Special Report) - Thousands of Latin-American migrants come to work in the United States every year, legally and illegally. But does their time in the U.S. help or hurt them when they return to their home countries?

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How Truthy is the Twitter Torrent?

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Oct. 07 (Special Report) - Memes divide and replicate on the Internet in a way they never did through old-fashioned media or word of mouth. In a matter of mouse clicks, the government is planning death panels. The president is a Muslim. There are headless bodies in the desert, medical microchips under our skin and IRS agents are coming for our guns.

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Four out of Five Experts Agree With Me!

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Sep. 25 (News) - New research finds we trust experts who agree with our own opinions, suggesting that subjective feelings override scientific information.

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Rude Awakening for the DREAM Act

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Sep. 24 () - The proposed DREAM Act’s effort to allow the foreign-born children of parents who entered the U.S. illegally fights the headwinds of the immigration debate.

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Actuaries Insist We’ve Got to Retire Later

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Sep. 23 (Special Report) - Early retirement, bah! The people who measure our life spans say Social Security should be less something that kicks in at 65 and more something Americans tap for, say, their last 20 years.

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USB Warfare: The Real Electronic Nightmare

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Sep. 22 (Special Report) - But there are other ways to wage electronic war, and they tend to be more terrifying precisely because they’re tougher to fight.

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Cops and College: Do Police Need Book Smarts?

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Melinda Burns - Sep. 02 (Special Report) - Better-educated police officers resort less often to using force, research shows. Research shows that police officers with a college education resort to using force less often. Weighing in on a long-simmering dispute, a recent study for the Police

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The Limits of Empathy for Outsiders

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Jul. 20 (News) - Two new studies — one sociological, another using brain scans — document and help explain our lack of empathy for perceived outsiders.

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Mandatory Voting As a Cure for Extreme Partisanship?

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Jul. 08 (Special Report) - If every adult American had to vote, perhaps the extremists on both ends of the spectrum could be shushed out by the silent majority.

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Is the Gaza Blockade Backfiring?

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Vince Beiser - Jun. 22 (Special Report) - The flotilla debacle aside, Israel's effort to strangle Hamas is fighting some tough historical headwinds.

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Love Thy Neighbor? Not If He’s Different

Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By David Villano - May. 05 (News) - New research reveals that people connected to organized religion are more likely to harbor racial prejudice.

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Banning Burqas in Europe

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Apr. 28 (Opinion) - How did such an un-American-sounding idea as banning someone’s religiously inspired clothing choice take root in Western countries?

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10 Things You Didn’t Know Were in the Health Bill

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Mar. 29 (News) - From breast pumping to adoption tax credits, the leviathan known as the U.S. health care bill is loaded with little goodies.

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Desperately Seeking Landmines

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Vince Beiser - Mar. 02 (Special Report) - Despite years of research on everything from ‘HeroRATS’ to TNT-sniffing bees, humans still remove most landmines by poking — very, very carefully — in the ground.

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Who Needs God When We've Got Mammon?

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By David Villano - Nov. 29 (News Report) - "Popular religion," Paul proposes, "is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment." Paul, who was criticized, mostly on statistical grounds, for a similar study published in 2005, says his new findings lend support to the belief that mass acceptance of popular religion is determined more by environmental influences and less by selective, evolutionary forces, as scholars and philosophers have long debated.

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Study Suggest Black Women's Relative Invisibility in Society

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 24 (News Report) - New research finds black women are more likely to go unnoticed and unappreciated than black men or whites of either gender.

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Missing the Gain But Joining the Pain

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Sam Kornell - Nov. 15 (News Analysis) - Since the industrial revolution, profits from the exploitation of fossil energy — coal, oil and natural gas — have not been equally distributed. America, Europe and Japan got rich off of oil and coal; now China, India and much of the rest of the developing world are attempting to do the same thing. If they succeed, climate scientists say, it will mean environmental catastrophe. This progression has created a situation in which any solution to climate change is, to a greater or lesser extent, going to be unfair — a fact many negotiators openly acknowledge. The Danish environmental minister hosting the Copenhagen conference, Connie Hedegaard, has reportedly been "extraordinarily blunt" in insisting that China, India and the rest of the developing world shoulder a large share of the climate load.

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I’d Like the Same Plan Better If It Was Bill Clinton’s

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 13 (Special Report) - Even among the most extreme opponents of President Obama's push for health care reform — those who equate his proposals to Nazi death camps or Soviet gulags — there's little overtly expressed racism. Aside from the occasional slip by Republican officials in South Carolina,...But implicit racism — prejudice unacknowledged in public and, in many cases, hidden from conscious awareness — is a factor in opposition to Obama's health policies

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