Life News (Law and Public Policy)

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Health care reform has made important progress in ensuring that America’s 70 million children have health care coverage with benefits that meet their unique health care needs. Families of pediatric patients from America’s children’s hospitals understand that access to timely, high-quality medical care can save lives. That’s why two patients from NewYork-Presbyterian/Phyllis and David Komansky Center for Children’s Health and NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and their families have traveled to Washington, D.C., to discuss their personal health care stories with lawmakers who are carefully monitoring how health reform implementation rolls out.

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The University of Iowa’s Iowa Electronic Markets has opened a real-money prediction market to track the race for the U.S. Senate seat from Florida between Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist and Kendrick Meek.

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A third of Ohio children with special health care needs have unstable or inadequate insurance coverage despite the fact that they may qualify for government health programs, according to a new data analysis by the Child Policy Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

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More than half of all newspaper articles on crimes against children reveal identifying information about the victims, according to new research conducted by the University of New Hampshire’s Crimes against Children Research Center.

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Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia continues to lead on sustainable issues as the university has prepared new anti-idling guidelines for vehicles operating on campus.

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As the U.S. Census Bureau prepares to release 2009 birth rate data this week, Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey Institute at the University of the New Hampshire, is available to discuss the implications of minority births possibly creating the first “minority majority” in the nation.

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Climate change has been a serious concern for military leaders long before reports and headlines focused on the topic over the past few years. An informative look at how the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is assessing the consequences from climate change is highlighted in the Spring 2010 issue of Imaging Notes magazine.

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The increased privatization of public space is leading to increasing marginalization of the homeless and the people on the fringes of society, says a University of Calgary researcher. And that, she warns, may weaken democracy by keeping better-off people unaware of how others live.

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First Nations communities and municipal governments in British Columbia are quietly creating and implementing a range of successful cooperation agreements, says a Wilfrid Laurier University researcher.

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A Texas Tech University expert on immigration and border history says that the law is no different than the Repatriation Act of the 1930s or Operation Wetback of the 1950s.

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Notable historians, activists and global thought-leaders set sail June 10 for Semester at Sea's Forum on Global Engagement. They will tackle some of today’s most critical issues, including including education, human rights, social justice, health and sustainability.

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A University of Iowa law professor and expert in evidence collection and suspect rights said the Miranda Rights are becoming increasingly threatened after Monday's ruling by the United States Supreme Court.

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Linda Hagedorn, an Iowa State University professor, has worked with U.S. State Department officials to open dialogue on exporting the U.S. community college model to Indonesia. President Obama visits the country June 14.

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Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Cornell University Professor of Law and an expert in environmental law, comments on the “ad hoc” responses of Congress and BP to the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

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News conference to discuss tour of Mayo Clinic and discussion about Mayo’s patient-centered, high-value care approach and health information technology efforts. Media access to Sebelius is limited to the news conference. Pool footage and still photography from the tour will be available.

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Study says recent B.C. wildfires have people wondering: Should I build a house here?

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American University Recognizes Executive Leadership in the Federal Government with the 2010 Roger W. Jones Awards

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One major aspect missing from recent health care reform conversations is housing, especially with regard to the aging population of the United States, according to three University of Arkansas researchers who have collaborated on a new book.

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Cornell University President David J. Skorton has sent a letter to Congress, co-signed by four other university presidents, asking for prompt repeal of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” military policy.

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Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind poll reports on NJ voter's opinions on President Obama.

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Americans are divided over whether to increase offshore oil drilling, and a majority believes the risks outweigh the benefits, according to a new nationwide survey released today by Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Indiana University Professor and former EPA official Jim Barnes says federal regulators are making a big mistake by not following through on a moratorium on offshore drilling.

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Homeland security and other regulatory agencies are creating jobs and a record-breaking budget according to a new study from the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis and the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center. A Decade of Growth in the Regulators’ Budget: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 details the rise in regulatory spending and who gets the lion's share of this year's $59 billion federal regulatory budget.

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Recent increased tension on the Asian peninsula not only has endangered the security situation in Northeast Asia, but also whether reunification between North and South Korea will ever take place. The situation could push the United States to introduce more military resources into the region and encourage China to be a more dominant political player, according to Chris Reardon, associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire.

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A review article describes the carcinogenic effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including bisphenol A (BPA). Researchers express the need for more complex strategies for studying how these chemicals affect health but report that ample evidence supports changing public health and environmental policies to protect the public, particularly the developing fetus and women of reproductive age.

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A new DVD created by the Indiana University Maurer School of Law will help train professional journalists, students, and the public on problems of accessibility to public documents and officials.

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A random sample of littered cigarette packs reveals that 75 percent of the cigarettes used in Chicago bring no tax revenue to the city, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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The University of Houston center that conducts impartial research of public policy issues now will bear the name of a giant in the world of public service, media and academics. The UH Center for Public Policy (CPP) has been renamed the Hobby Center for Public Policy in honor of William P. Hobby.

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The Gulf oil spill points to the risks of off-shore drilling. A better strategy is to preserve the oil as an insurance plan for the future, says Rafael Reuveny, a professor at Indiana University

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A new X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Fact Sheet is now available from Secure World Foundation that details the likely uses of the reusable space vehicle. The informative fact sheet also explains the advantages and disadvantages of theoretical duties of the mini-space plane, gauging them in high, medium and low feasibility.

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Leading authorities attending Space Law and Policy 2010 explored varied uses of outer space, as well as present-day and future legal and policy challenges - to international institutions, commercial enterprises, and the U.S. government.

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A new Cornell University study has found that unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted, and tend to get hit with longer, harsher sentences – with an average of 22 months longer in prison recommended by the study’s participants.

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American University plans to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions and become a carbon-neutral campus by 2020.

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As the Supreme Court is set to rule in two cases involving juveniles sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole, a Baylor Law School professor makes the case on why the practice should end.

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President Barack Obama’s choice of Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his nominee for U.S. Supreme Court justice suggests that he is looking to the court to maintain current policies rather than to “transform” society, says a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) expert in judicial behavior and the politics of judicial regimes.

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A recent seminar has called attention to progressive steps that are being taken in shaping a Latin American national space policy, one that unifies various space efforts throughout the region.

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With the rising childhood obesity and associated chronic disease rates posing a serious health threat to American school children, leading nutrition researchers call for developing a modernized home economics curriculum centered on food preparation and nutrition education in schools.

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The Senate Judiciary hearings should be interesting since she hasn’t been a judge and has no written opinions to study, said Mark McKenzie, a Texas Tech Supreme Court expert.

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American University's Washington College of Law experts available to comment on Kagan nomination.

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Reporters who are looking for a expert perspective on President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court should consider Johns Hopkins University Professor Joel Grossman.

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Michael C. Dorf, constitutional law scholar, former Supreme Court law clerk and professor at Cornell University Law School, comments on President Obama’s apparent choice of Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his next Supreme Court nominee.

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Government action, specifically on the part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, must play a critical role in the development and implementation of global privacy regulations, according to an Indiana University expert.

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Experts at The University of Texas at Austin are available to discuss a host of topics relating to immigration reform and the border – from the rise in U.S.-Mexico border violence, to the consequences of Arizona’s new immigration law.

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Already this year, six wild coyotes have been spotted in Manhattan. Area residents also are witnessing a surge in raccoon, deer and Canada geese populations. Why are urban wildlife populations exploding? Cornell natural resources professor Paul Curtis will talk with the media about the latest research, and help sort fact from fiction.

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A new $12 million innovation competition, based on a partnership between the U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Administration (EDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) was recently announced at the Association of University Research Parks (AURP) BioParks 2010 conference.

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Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Cornell University Professor of Law and an expert in environmental law, comments on the liability facing BP as a result of the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

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Leading physician policy experts are calling for changes in medical education policy at multiple levels to ensure that physicians are ready to treat the country’s growing older adult population.

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The current Greek debt crisis looks to be a classic case of potential 'contagion' in global financial markets. Things can turn more ominous, however, when speculators in the financial markets begin betting en masse against a country like Greece, for in these cases the fears of some investors can become self-fulfilling prophecies.

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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Bayh-Dole Act, legislation that fostered the commercialization of many new technological advances that impact the lives of millions. AUTM announced a new Web site, www.B-D30.org, providing articles, history, and more.

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The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) today offered its support to help the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) meet the challenges of reducing the amount of sodium in foods.