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This TIME poll was conducted by telephone April 2-6 among 676 registered Democrats in Pennsylvania who said they were likely to vote in the primary election. The margin of error for the entire sample is ±4 percentage points. The margin of error is higher for subgroups. "Don't know" responses omitted from some questions in this chart. SRBI Public Affairs designed the survey. The full results can be found at www.srbi.com...
...Medal of Honor, President George W. Bush said at the White House on April 8, when he presented it to Monsoor's parents, is "awarded for an act of such courage that no one could rightly be expected to undertake it." The ceremony unfolded on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad and on a day of Senate hearings on the progress of the war. Half a world away, the streets of the Iraqi capital were empty under a military curfew to prevent car bombings. Down Pennsylvania Avenue, Democrats and Republicans competed over who could describe...
...latest shot is being fired by economist, actor and game-show host Ben Stein, with his documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, due out April 18. Stein nominally set out to make the case that academics who write about evolution are being muzzled or denied tenure if they so much as nod in the direction of intelligent design. It's impossible to know from the handful of examples he cites how widespread the problem is, but if there's anything to it at all, it's a matter well worth exposing...
...Olympic-torch relay has been hounded at practically every step--in London, Paris and San Francisco--by pro-Tibet activists. In the French capital, security officials were obliged to turn off the flame on several occasions to protect it from protesters. Even before it arrived in the U.S. on April 8, activists unfurled FREE TIBET banners from the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge. On April 9, San Francisco police were forced to shorten the relay in the city, citing security concerns. Beijing vowed to proceed with the relay unchanged, but more protests are expected in the 15 places...
...Chinese authorities have responded to the clamor by further tightening the clamps on domestic dissent. On April 3, prominent human-rights activist Hu Jia received a 3 1/2-year prison sentence on charges of inciting subversion of state power. Hu's conviction, apparently stemming from articles he wrote and interviews he gave linking the Olympics with human rights in China, was the latest in what rights advocates in China say is a string of detentions of activists all over the country. Beijing is also applying pressure on China's huge online population of some 230 million, which is often cited...