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The teenagers are in charge of our government
Anybody who has spent any time around teenagers develops a kind of sixth sense for when they are hearing those teens lie. The elaborate explanation. The breezy dismissal. The dramatic outrage. When teens tell you it isn't a big deal, it usually is....Tags: FBI, Sexual Assault, National Security Agency, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Sex Crimes
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Biological psychiatry's false paradigm
Days before the official May 22 publication date of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM-5), a number of psychiatrists who were closely associated with the project scrambled to do some preemptory damage control, mostly by...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Symptoms, Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Mental Health
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Rx for electronic records
A critical opportunity to improve U.S. health care finally lies within reach. In 2004, then-President George Bush announced the goal to have a national electronic health records (EHR) system in place in 10 years. Tragically, EHR development had become...
Tags: American Medical Association, Health Insurance Cost, George W. Bush, Government Health Care, Technology
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In a word: ersatz
The Baltimore SunEach week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a relatively obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar, another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: ERSATZ English merrily plunders other languages... -
Diversity efforts in lacrosse slow to pay off, but it's a start
When Chazz Woodson, a midfielder for Major League Lacrosse's Ohio Machine, stated recently that a racial epithet had been directed at him three times during his collegiate career at Brown, once by an opposing player and twice by teammates, the old myth...
Tags: Cultural Development, Lacrosse, Civil Rights, Minority Groups, Major League Lacrosse
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Homer E. Favor, civil rights activist
Dr. Homer Eli Favor, a retired Morgan State University economist who was an original member of the civil rights activist group whose members called themselves the "Goon Squad," died of heart disease Saturday at the Baltimore-Washington Medical Center. A...
Tags: Activism, Morgan State University, Heart Disease, Teaching and Learning, Baptist
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Surveillance leaks show Obama's hypocrisy
The revelation that the federal government has spied on millions of supposedly private phone and Internet communications makes President Barack Obama's headache over the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exemptions seem like a passing...
Tags: Saxby Chambliss, Dianne Feinstein, Barack Obama, Freedom of the Press, Verizon Communications
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Is it time to quit being nice about what 'NewsHour' has become?
The Baltimore Sun(Updates at end with response from NewsHour) With the word Tuesday that "NewsHour" was shutting down offices and laying off employees, it's time to ask the question: Just how much of the this one-time PBS bedrock is actually left? In fact, let's go a...Tags: CBS Corp., Google Inc., PBS (tv network), Washington, DC, Unemployment
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Snooping, past and present
For us aging Vietnam War protesters, the secret domestic surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, a young former CIA contractor, is like a bad flashback. In 1968, Lyndon Johnson demanded that something be done to curb the demonstrations that were...
Tags: Dwayne Johnson, Social Movements, U.S. Department of Defense, September 11, 2001 Attacks, George W. Bush
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Ban on patenting DNA cheers researchers
Researchers hailed the Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that bans the patenting of human DNA, saying it would expand access to genetic testing for disease at lower cost to patients. In a unanimous decision, the justices said Myriad Genetics did not have...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, National Institutes of Health, Mastectomy, Medical Research, Civil Rights
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The Pick-Up: Week One of CSA Challenge: Garlic scapes recipe
My first thought when I found a garlic scapes dip recipe, which ran in the New York Times several years ago, was this: I bet this dip would be great with homemade pita chips. My second thought was this: Making homemade pita chips means cleaning my big...
Tags: Pita Bread, Salt, Tomatoes, Garlic, Lemons
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As in Maryland, local police nationwide scooping up DNA
Police departments around the country are collecting DNA in largely unregulated databases, The New York Times reported today, providing a broader look at a practice The Baltimore Sun revealed in Maryland earlier this year. The largest collections of DNA...
Tags: Criminal Laws, Laws, Biotechnology Industry
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