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U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 4, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- Car crashes are the leading cause of death for tweens and teens, and a new study outlines some of the most dangerous circumstances: Riding unbuckled with new teen drivers on high-speed roads. These were the three biggest risk factors contributing to ca.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 19, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- In another blow to the Motor City’s tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation’s most dangerous city, according to a private research group’s controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual FBI crime statistics. The st.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Feb 4, 2007 @ 10:57am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Crude oil is still polluting Alaskan waters almost 18 years after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground, according to a study by US government scientists to be published in two weeks... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 8, 2007 @ 11:59pm neoform

New York Times -- Families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush’s tax cuts, according to a new Congressional study... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 20, 2006 @ 12:38pm mrmdc

CNN -- More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Oct 18, 2006 @ 8:26am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- The Baker report on an exit strategy from Iraq, leaked this week in the US, is as sensible as it is sensational. It rejects "staying the course" as no longer plausible and purports to seek alternatives to just "cutting and running". Stripped of politi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 30, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

SF Gate -- Soldiers who need special waivers to get into the Army because of bad behavior go AWOL more often and face more courts-martial. But they also get promoted faster and re-enlist at a higher rate, according to an internal military study obtained by The Assoc.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 1, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- People driving their cars, cranking on their air conditioners and switching on lights and dishwashers are responsible for most of the climate changes that are gradually drying up water supplies in arid and growing western states, a new study finds. Tho.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

SF Gate -- Women hold only one out of every nine leadership positions at the largest publicly held companies in California, according to a study released Tuesday. The annual survey of 400 publicly held corporations headquartered in California was conducted by the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 9, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

USA Today -- Tasers and similar stun guns, increasingly popular among law enforcement agencies nationwide, are generally safe for police to use, according to new research. In what was called the first large independent study of injuries from Tasers, researchers rev.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 9:15pm neoform

CNN -- Black, Hispanic and white drivers are equally likely to be pulled over by police, but blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be searched and arrested, a federal study found. Police were much more likely to threaten or use force against blacks and.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 16, 2007 @ 9:27am mrmdc

www.medicalnewstoday.com -- A new article examines problems regarding current police-confession procedures, focusing on an alarming occurrence of false confessions. The study appears in Psychological Science in the Public Interest... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Dec 16, 2006 @ 12:01pm neoform

MSNBC -- We hear a lot about brain drain, the flow of highly educated workers away from economically stagnant regions. The flip side: Some places are magnets for the brightest of the bright. And whether you want to locate your new biotech firm near hotshot recruit.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 13, 2006 @ 9:03pm neoform

USA Today -- Question: How and why was the Iraq Study Group created? Answer: Congress created the panel March 15 after it was clear that Iraq was dangerously close to civil war and Democrats and Republicans were bitterly divided about what to do and public support f.. Read More