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...terms of specific examples, Dr. Nanette Gartrell, former Harvard Medical School faculty and current Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco, has conducted research on lesbian-headed families since the early 1980s. Gartrell's findings have proven that "in social and psychological development, the children [of lesbian parents] were comparable to children raised in heterosexual families." In addition, Dr. Charlotte Patterson, Professor of Psychology as the University of Virginia and respected family and child researcher, has determined that "there is no evidence that the development of children with lesbian or gay parents is compromised...
...checkered history. The group was founded in 1965 as a leftist-religious faction opposing the Shah's regime. But it was no less opposed to the Islamist regime that arrived with Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, which executed thousands of the group's supporters. By the mid-1980s, the group had cozied up to Saddam Hussein, who provided them with funds and a compound, Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad. The U.S. government has accused the group of helping Saddam brutally put down a Kurdish rebellion in the early 1990s, and of launching numerous attacks inside Iran...
...elections his constitution instituted, Pinochet ceded the presidency, only retaining his status as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Absolute control of the government had been necessary in the unstable years following the coup, as fierce communist opposition loomed. The disappearances and assassinations that continued well into the 1980s were at least in part a response to the communists’ continued efforts of insurrection against Pinochet’s government. The 1986 assassination attempt—killing five of Pinochet’s bodyguards—is an indication of the gravity of the communist threat. Sometimes...
...level of protection for Musicrypt and its clients is BioPassword Inc., a security-software company based in Issaquah, Wash. Keystroke patterning was first employed by the military a century ago in its use of Morse code, which also allows senders to be identified by their tapping rhythms. In the 1980s, Stanford University scientists applied the technique to computer security. But it was not until BioPassword bought the patents from the school in 2002 that keystroke dynamics found its first commercial use. BioPassword's developers harnessed the technology into portable software and began selling it in 2004 as a backup password...
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