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New voting laws could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012, according to the first comprehensive study of the laws’ impact. "In 2012 we should make it easier for every eligible citizen to vote. Instead, we have made it far harder for too many"
My mother valued the companionship of friends her own age, but she also liked learning about the tastes, interests, and ideas of younger women. As she grew older and faced the reality that friends of her generation were leaving this earth in far too rapid succession, the friendships she cultivated with younger women helped to soften those repeated losses.
"The Maloof residence and workshop were filled with the finest examples of Sam’s own furniture and offered a warm and welcoming environment where creative colleagues met to share a meal, exchange ideas, and provide mutual support and encouragement."
A poor woman is five times as likely as her higher-income counterpart to have an unintended pregnancy (132 versus 24 per 1,000 women of reproductive age), six times as likely to have a birth resulting from an unintended pregnancy, and five times as likely to have an abortion
The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country. Where can you find more information on why a particular book was banned?
Many retirees say their stress is less, their relationships with loved ones are better, their diet is improved, and the amount of time they spend doing favorite activities is increased – yet 25 percent of retirees say life is worse
In my previous life my office desk, computer, bathroom mirror, and other surfaces were covered with Post-It Notes. Then ancient tree products and writing instruments were old hat, and programs or applications replaced all of those Pitman-penmanship stickies
We were in England last Fall and viewed the first episode of the Downton Abbey's second season; it was everything you've come to expect. Hint: Sympathy for the character of Lady Mary Crawley is emphasized and considering a new character in the life of the estate inheritor Matthew Crawley, that sympathy is well-founded!
If you can't, the first season will be reprised beginning with December 18 of…
Biographer Gwinn writes in Emily Greene Balch: The Long Road to Internationalism that Balch “had been fundamental to the life and work of Jane Addams and other settlement and peace workers; she had been an influential teacher, revered friend, a respected scholar and visionary thinker." Dr. Mukherjee, author of Emperor of All Maladies, explains with great clarity just exactly what cancer is, how much we know about it at this point, and possible new directions in which the world of science might proceed to deal with it.
"Some people think genes are destiny, that if you have a specific gene, then you will have a particular outcome. That is definitely not the case. This gene is one factor that influences psychological resources and depression, but there is plenty of room for environmental factors as well.”
I would never, ever become a slave to the soaps, I always asserted, looking down my nose at my weak-minded sisters. Yeah, well never say “never.” It’s time for me to confess: My name is Rose, and I am a Soapaholic
As a rule, those with higher levels of education and higher levels of income are more likely to follow most of the local news topics asked about, particularly those with a civic dimension such as politics, government news, and community events.
Nine Republican presidential candidates debated for two hours in Orlando, Fla., and they served up more exaggerations and falsehoods — about Obama, each other, and even Thomas Jefferson
With state and municipal budgets shrinking and public safety resources diminishing, public surveillance camera systems offer local law enforcement agencies a cost-effective way to deter, document, and reduce crime
Julia Sneden reviews 1493 by Charles Mann and wonders whether it would come up to the standard Mann had set so high with 1491. She writes, "The answer, dear reader, is a resounding 'Yes!' That answer does not, however, come without a few caveats."
Julia Sneden writes: Just leave me alone with my books, my real, physical, weighty books. Just try entering “e-book” into Google, if you want a lesson in technological confusion. Our public libraries are struggling with the parameters of e-book usage as are the publishers
As it becomes more difficult to get state legislatures to pass tax increases, people who think cash-strapped states have cut budgets too much are taking their case straight to voters.
A New York Times art critic called Chrysler the most underrated American collector of his time. He was known for buying against fashion, as he had confidence that the special qualities he saw in various pieces would gain acceptance later.
Drink can be a great tool for assessing character. I hope my granddaughters can see that you can tell a lot about a man by the way he handles the way his date drinks — or doesn’t — as much as by how he handles his own drink.
Women were the secret weapon of the civil rights movement. For the most part, the men made the speeches and did the press interviews, and the women did the work. If they hadn’t, all those great plans would not have gotten past the talking stage.
Older states, such as Maine, Vermont, West Virginia and New Hampshire, may have less time than others to prepare for challenges such as providing long-term care for a growing elderly population
"We knew that treating pregnant women and parents differently when issuing a mortgage could be a violation of the federal Fair Housing Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender or family status, amongst other categories"
We’re not taking our eyes off the road and our hands off the wheel to make out with a “friend with benefits” in the passenger seat, or on our lap. (We don’t have many friends left alive — with or without benefits.)
Consider the 1950s 'Rose & Bow' Dress, a design adopted developed from an original day dress in the V&A's archives. Fitted waist and boice, free hips, 100 % cotton. The dress is worn over a "Superwhoosh"1950s petticoat for additional volume
Almost 700 miles from the Washington MLK memorial is another civil rights memorial, with the names of 40 who were killed between the May 17, 1954 Brown decision and Dr. King’s assassination on April 4,1968. Most were black men; six were female; seven were children; eight were white.
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