It's McCain vs. Obama - under the watchful eyes of three university Laban Movement Specialists - who have their own ideas about how this presidential campaign is shaping up.
Once approved by the U.S. and Canadian governments, the Great Lakes Compact will for one thing, erect a "legal fence" prohibiting the exportation of water from the Great Lakes basin. "The Great Lakes are the largest freshwater source on the planet, and their protection and smart use are essential," says water resource management and policy expert Bill Blomquist.
Award recognizes Cross-Border Sustainability Efforts to Maintain Integrity of Southern California Wetlands.
The Secure World Foundation (SWF) has received Permanent Observer status within the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. This status will further SWF objectives dedicated to maintaining the secure and sustainable use of space for the benefit of Earth and all its peoples.
Contrary to some previous claims, a paper by economists at Indiana and Duke universities finds no correlation between nations' resource endowments and the quality of their institutions.
This fall Democratic campaign strategists might want to target traditionally Republican congressional districts with heavy casualties in Iraq, according to research by two political scientists. The study finds that GOP incumbents were more likely to lose in district with heavy "hometown" losses.
A previously unreleased survey of voting preferences in Kenya's recent national elections will be presented at briefings in Washington on July 8 and 9.
One hundred years ago this week, a huge explosion took place in the atmosphere over Tunguska. Today, there is a low probability -- but not zero -- that an asteroid loitering out there in space has Earth's name on it. A melding of technology and space governance could negate such events from happening in the future.
Researchers found Ohio voters noticed improvements in their voting experience from a program that recruited young and fresh faces to staff polling places.
The decision to vote is partly genetic, according to a new study published in the American Political Science Review.
Tulane University law professor Ray Diamond, an expert on Constitutional Law and especially the Second Amendment, is available for comment on District of Columbia v. Heller. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision on June 26, 2008.
Preventive health services offer the potential to both reduce costs and vastly improve overall health and well being, but these benefits generally are overlooked by policymakers. Dr. Daniel Jones, president of the American Heart Association, argues that prevention is an affordable investment that makes sense, and the issue deserves to be debated as a key component of the 2008 presidential election.
President Bush's call for Congress to end its decades-old ban on offshore oil and gas drilling has highlighted key differences in the big-oil platforms of presumptive Republican and Democratic presidential nominees Barak Obama and John McCain.
A new marketing study shows that without an interpretive footnote or further information on recommended daily value, many consumers do not know how to interpret the meaning of trans-fat content on the Nutrition Facts panel. In fact, without specific prior knowledge about trans fat and its negative health effects, consumers, including those at risk for heart disease, may misinterpret nutrient information provided on the panel, which is required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge, co-edited by Lisa H. Sideris, assistant professor of religious studies at Indiana University Bloomington, examines the contested influence of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring along with her earlier work, such as The Sea Around Us and The Sense of Wonder.
A team of researchers at Northeastern University's Institute on Race and Justice, in collaboration with Arizona State University and Sam Houston State University, has issued a report about the incidence of and response to human trafficking in the United States.
The University of Maryland School of Law, nationally recognized for its pioneering efforts to integrate legal theory and practice, is once again blazing a new trail in the ways that it prepares law students for careers both inside and outside of law practice.
Emergency dispatchers, caseworkers and other public service workers perform "emotional" labor that should be valued in the same manner as mental and physical labor, according to a new book co-authored by a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher.
New research into how cellphone bans affect behavior of teen drivers
Steffen Schmidt and Michael McCoy -- both researchers in Iowa State University's Center for Information Protection -- provide information on how identity theft may be perpetrated and protection tips in a new book, "The Silent Crime: What You Need to Know About Identity Theft" (Twin Lakes Press, 2008).
Research and innovation is being funded at an unprecedented pace around the world, yet U.S. research and innovation funding faces budget cuts. Ways to increase efficiencies and increase competitiveness will be on the agenda as research park executives gather June 16 at BioParks 2008. Key pacesetters from the public and private sectors will examine emerging efforts to increase the speed of discovery and the process of bringing new discoveries into the marketplace to create new jobs and increased prosperity.
There are strong advantages to a system in which businesses facing personal injury lawsuits could promptly pay injured parties for out-of-pocket medical expenses and lost wages while avoiding long court battles, high legal fees and "pain and suffering" damages, according to a new study.
The author of a book on media bias in women's presidential campaigns is available to discuss the role of the media in Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
University of Utah law professor Amos Guiora to testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Improving Detainee Policy: Handling Terrorism Detainees within the American Justice System." The hearing begins June 4 at 10:00 a.m. EDT in room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building in Washington, D.C.
People with disabilities all along the Gulf Coast were caught off guard by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and forced to flee without their wheelchairs, service animals and in some instances even their eyeglasses. UT Houston's Lex Frieden has launched a new Web site, www.disability911.com, to help them avoid a recurrence.
The How Class Works - 2008 conference, sponsored by the Center for Study of Working Class Life at Stony Brook University, will host over 180 presentations in the new field of working class studies by academics and union and community activists from across the United States, and Australia, Canada, France, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Nigeria, Turkey, and the UK. The conference will also include film, music, and poetry.
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) will host the first of six major national conferences on homeland security and emergency management from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 12, 2008, at the University Place Conference Center, located at 850 W. Michigan St. on the IUPUI campus.
The Middlesex Sheriff's Office is funding a one-year study at Northeastern University's Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research that will examine recidivism rates of inmates released from the Middlesex House of Correction at Billerica.
The American Pain Society (APS) today praised the US House of Representatives for taking action to improve pain management for America's servicemen and women and their families. The House on May 22 passed a Defense Department authorization bill for FY 2009 containing provisions of the Loebsack Military Pain Care Act. The Loebsack measure now goes to the Senate.
The US Physics Team met yesterday with the three members of Congress who are physicists.
The ability of the U.S. to remain competitive in 21st-century innovation-based economies will depend upon maximizing the efficiency and productivity of a vast array of resources. The House R&D Caucus will be briefed by Research Park leaders at a luncheon in the House Rayburn Office Building, Room 340, at 12:00 noon.
A new book, Cyber Security: Economic Strategies and Public Policy Alternatives, provides the first systematic analysis of the economics of protecting cyberspace.
Fewer than 4 percent of the nation's firefighters are women, and more than half of paid fire departments have never hired a female firefighter, finds a new report issued by Cornell's Institute for Women and Work in the ILR School in partnership with several co-authors.
With hurricane season about to begin, those living in high-risk areas should heed the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina: think Home Depot, not Homeland Security.
Law student Michael Dodge earns a special distinction Saturday when he is awarded the juris doctor degree. Dodge, of Long Beach, Miss., becomes the first graduate to also receive a special space law certificate, the only one of its kind in the country, through the law school's National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law.
Whether or not the rebates and Washington's economic stimulus package avert a looming recession, Americans are paying more for food, fuel, homes and health care. They are expecting the next president to provide relief, but just how much a president can really do is debatable. Several economists discuss the economic issues that promise to play a major role in how Americans vote this fall.
The National Agricultural Law Center at the University of Arkansas School of Law recently published a comprehensive digitized compilation of U.S. Farm Bills and their legislative history. The information is available free of charge on the center's Web site at http://NationalAgLawCenter.org/farmbills/.
Sixty years ago St. Louis was a thriving city with a population of almost a million. These days fewer than 300,000 people call The Gateway City home. With decrepit Victorian homes and boarded-up factories in abundance, some would say it's a pathetic picture of decay and abandonment. "Mapping Decline," Colin Gordon argues that discriminatory housing policies, a collapse of the city's tax base, and shortsighted urban renewal policies are behind the decline.
A food security expert at the University at Buffalo says the worldwide food crisis is a direct result of the choices made by policy makers and the lack of attention paid to the food system and its relationship to global warming and fossil fuels.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has identified 36 countries that are the most affected by the global food crisis, 10 of which are located in Asia. Central Michigan University history faculty member Randall Doyle is available to speak on how the food crisis is affecting Asia on many different levels.
Approximately 250,000 items of sexual assault evidence are mired in three- to 12-month backlogs awaiting analysis in U.S. forensic laboratories. A University of Virginia forensic chemist has developed a method for handling rape evidence that reduces part of the DNA analysis time from 24 hours to as little as 30 to 45 minutes and improves the sperm cell recovery rate by 100 percent.
Five internationally recognized experts on public health, vaccines, and bioethics meet at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia for its annual health policy symposium titled "The Future of Vaccines: Challenges, Successes, Opportunities."
U.S. foreign policy is cyclical, according to Dr. Jack Holmes, a political scientist at Hope College in Holland, Mich. The forces behind this cycle limit the range of policy choices available to a President, regardless of campaign rhetoric. So even if the Democrats win the White House and end the Iraq war as promised, expect the U.S. military to remain active to meet the challenge of global terrorism.
"War and Taxes," published by the Urban Institute Press, chronicles the political arguments, economic conditions, and public opinions that made it possible for previous presidents and Congresses to raise taxes, sell bonds, and cut domestic spending to pay for wars. The authors contrast the tax hikes enacted to support previous military operations with the extraordinary tax cuts Americans have enjoyed during the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq"”all without overstating previous generations' enthusiasm for wartime sacrifice.
Indiana University experts discuss legal, economic and cultural issues influencing the Democratic presidential primary campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as Indiana's influential primary election approaches.
Faculty members at Indiana University offer media tips on Indiana politics, the impact of the Indiana voter ID law, broadcast media coverage of the Indiana primary and the relationship between presidential and congressional races.
Budget cuts to tobacco control programs significantly reduce their effectiveness, according to a new report by researchers at the University of Wisconsin and RTI International.
Obama Backers Believe He Can Win; Clinton Supporters Not As Confident She Can - According to a new nationwide survey commissioned by LEADS at Spelman College, minority female Democrats say leadership ability, not race or gender, is the primary motivator for their selection of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee.
The mounting number of nations involved in space activity have far-reaching implications for cooperation and international competitiveness - a focus of a new issue of the Secure World Foundation's newsletter: The Secure World.
While many pundits are looking to Ohio for answers on how Pennsylvania will vote next week, giving Sen. Hillary Clinton a clear edge, Brian Schaffner, research fellow in American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies (CCPS), believes that cultural indicators show that Pennsylvania voters most closely relate to voters in Wisconsin, a state Sen. Barack Obama won by 17 points.
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