If you reel in your fishing line in southern Idaho to find a two-headed trout staring back, it’s … no big deal? The New York Times explains: The JR Simplot Company wants the federal government to allow higher levels of the mining byproduct selenium to appear in local waterways. The company…
Continue reading …Pharmacists in Washington state who disagree with emergency contraception on religious grounds can no longer be required to dispense it, a federal judge ruled yesterday. The judge declared the state’s regulation unconstitutional, noting that pharmacies in the state are allowed to not stock drugs for various secular reasons—for instance,…
Continue reading …On Friday, Joyce Hardin Garrard found out her 9-year-old granddaughter Savannah Hardin had eaten a candy bar on the school bus, and allegedly punished her by making her run around the house, without stopping, for three hours. Savannah, who had a bladder condition that could have been aggravated by the…
Continue reading …Sometimes it’s nice to remember that older people have always been shocked by the habits of the young. One hundred years ago, in 1911, Tilden Pierce turned 100 years old and talked to the New York Times (not the Onion) about why he didn’t think the younger generation would be able to achieve his longevity:
Continue reading …A new study of nearly 20,000 middle schoolers has found that kids who attend schools that sell junk food such as soda and doughnuts do not gain more weight than students who attend schools where that type of food isn’t available. The study, published in this month’s issue of Sociology of Education, contradicts earlier research
Continue reading …A retired LAPD deputy police chief asking about marijuana legalization has ranked first among the videos in the White House’s “Your interview with the president” YouTube contest. “From my 20 years of experience I have come to see our country’s drug policies as a failure and a complete waste of criminal justice resources. According to
Continue reading …A new study based on interviews with more than 200 North American Muslims over four years concludes that a recent spate of state laws banning “sharia law” from the court system may be an overreaction to a non-existent threat. Oklahoma, Tennessee and Louisiana each passed laws or referendums to ban state judges from considering sharia
Continue reading …Some U.S.-born children with parents who are illegal immigrants have been denied food stamps under Alabama’s new immigration law, Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen told Yahoo News on Monday. Five people have called into the group’s Alabama hotline to say they were denied food stamps because they couldn’t prove they were legal residents,
Continue reading …The competition to offer streamed movies and TV shows over the Internet got even more crowded today as Comcast announced its version, reports the Los Angeles Times . The cable provider’s Xfinity Streampix will be available only to Comcast customers for $5 month—it’s free for some, depending on their current…
Continue reading …A major new study of heart attack victims presents cautionary stats for women: They are less likely to experience the classic symptom of chest pain and, perhaps because of that, they are more likely to die at the hospital than men, report USA Today and WebMD . It may be that…
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