Word: connecticut
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...ballot-box battles can be dispiriting for gays, who have otherwise grown used to hailing spectacular victories in the courts. Three state supreme courts - in Massachusetts, California and, just last week, Connecticut - have ruled that gays have the fundamental right to marry. Those courts have ruled that not even civil unions with all the legal trimmings of marriage can compensate. Gay-rights activists hope that Iowa's high court, will hear arguments in December and then rule as soon as January 2009 on a lower court's decision in favor of gay marriage, will bring judicial victories in state high...
...It’s been really fun, looking back on it,” Tune says. “It’s kind of unbelievable that it’s all gone by so fast.”This Thursday’s game at Connecticut College will mark the end of an era, as the two senior captains wrap up their careers and don the Crimson speedo for the final time in a regular season game.HARVARD 14, QUEENS 6In stark contrast to yesterday’s effort, the Crimson enjoyed an offensive onslaught to open the weekend...
...Connecticut Gay Marriage Upheld Connecticut became the third U.S. state to legalize gay marriage when its supreme court ruled 4-3 that a law against gay marriage discriminated against sexual orientation and was thus unconstitutional. The law, passed in 2005, legalized civil unions but specified that marriage involved "one man and one woman." A University of Connecticut poll found that 53% of residents supported the ruling, although Connecticut governor M. Jodi Rell said she disagreed with...
...change overall. Animals, however, are not. When their habitats change irrevocably - when the rain forest dries up or cool mountains in tropical zones heat up - animals may simply go extinct. A recent study in Science demonstrates how that can happen. Robert Colwell, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Connecticut, analyzed data from nearly 2,000 species of plants, insects and fungi in the tropics, where organisms often lack the ability to escape warming temperatures by going north or south; instead, they have to go up in elevation to find cooler temperatures. Colwell found that as populations in lowland areas...
...classes this fall), Friedman worked at a cancer research lab at the Medical School, wrote for the Harvard Science review, and, on a whim, joined the Hapkido club with Schaaf. Friedman also maintained a close relationship with a girlfriend who goes to school in his home state of Connecticut. “I didn’t know until afterwards what the survival rate was [for his type of cancer]—it was always ‘there’s this new treatment, this great treatment, this promising treatment,’” said Mark...