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...voted compared to 70 percent of people age 25 and up. The demographics of voter registration and turnout are closely studied by political strategists when determining who to target. If young people are not registered or do not have reliable turnout, politicians will not be compelled to appeal to youth interests and young people will be further disengaged from our democracy...
...last, the comic book geeks and the science nerds can be friends. That's thanks to a new book with equal appeal to the dreamy, artistically inclined fantasists and to their over-achieving, practical-minded counterparts - and even to the wider, more socially-well-adjusted reading public. "Suspended in Language" (General Tektroniks Labs; 318 pages; $25) takes the comic format on a rare foray into the world of science fact rather than -fiction. Written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Leland Purvis, the book offers an engrossing biography of the life and work of Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr, famous...
...focus our education programs on those groups that have the greatest chance of a negative interaction with our community,” says NELA Chair Vivienne Kramer. “We appeal to them to not enforce the laws. The truth is, laws are selectively enforced—regardless of what they...
Reilly’s decision was the final say in a lengthy appeal process for towns that were seeking to be exempted from a statewide, 249-town effort initiated by Public Safety Secretary Ed Flynn. The inspiration for Flynn’s initiative was a contraversial Northeastern University report, commissioned by the state legislature, which came out last May. The report analyzed traffic citations, warnings and search data for the state’s 366 law enforcement agencies. Under the statute that commissioned the study, Flynn was required to determine whether Northeastern’s data suggested a pattern...
Sistani's invisibility is in part cultivated, some aides and rivals say, to enhance the aura of mystery that contributes to his appeal. Says Sheik Haitham Nasrawi, a representative of al-Sadr's father: "When he sits behind closed doors, he is seen as a man who makes no mistakes." But during Saddam's reign of terror, Sistani's seclusion turned into house arrest imposed by the regime. He endured it as a "religious duty to defend the Shi'ites' sacred center," says Tawfiq al-Yassery, a secular Shi'ite politician with close ties to the ayatullah. After Saddam fell...