Joe | August 17, 2010
(Aug. 17) — In an article recently on AOL News, Paul Wachter posed the question: Will Obama take on prison reform? That’s a great question. It would be hard to predict what Obama actually will do, but this is certain: President Barack Obama absolutely should take on prison reform. It is a moral and practical [...]
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Joe | June 17, 2010
Wed Jun 16, 3:05 pm ET ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Radical Russian artists painted a giant protest penis on a drawbridge in central St. Petersburg ahead of a meeting that is the Russian answer to the World Economic Forum, police said on Wednesday. Measuring 65 metres (220 ft) long and 27 metres across, the [...]
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Joe | February 10, 2010
I’m not a political person, other than bashing the FDA at times for their drug approval policy, but this is something that I find upsetting. Please read on and decide for yourself if this action by our president makes any sense. Although, I’ve got to admit, my memories of Jane Fonda in Barberella were always [...]
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Joe | December 10, 2009
•The preference for sons in traditional Chinese families has led to a vast gender disparity in China: A study has found that there are currently 32 million more boys than girls under the age of 20. While Chinese officials have acknowledged that the country’s “one-child” policy has led to a gender imbalance, the new study [...]
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Joe | October 15, 2009
Forget, for a moment, all those fancy geoengineering schemes that would alter the face of the planet in an attempt to reduce global warming’s impact. Population scientists argue that a cheaper and simpler strategy is to hand out birth control to those who want it–especially to people in the developing world, where birth rates are [...]
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Joe | October 5, 2009
We all love to save a buck or two, but you and I are paying the price for Big Pharma’s latest obsessive cost-cutting measures. Every year, a more and more clinical trials are conducted overseas, with nearly a third of them now taking place outside of the United States and Western Europe. Many of these [...]
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Joe | August 10, 2009
Mehdi Karroubi, a candidate for president of Iran said, “Iranian inmates, both male and female, had been raped.” A top judiciary official acknowledged Saturday that some detainees had been tortured in Iranian prisons, the first such acknowledgment by a senior Iranian official. The comment had a particular resonance since allegations of torture by Shah Mohammed [...]
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