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According to Hatch Sterret of Cambridge United for Rent Equity (CURE), the problem was that thousands of 'inactive' voters who no longer live in Cambridge were counted by the Election Commission as part of the general voting base...
Consequently, CURE had to get signatures from 8 percent of a 58,000-person voting base, versus the 43,000 they thought they had to work from...
According to City Councillor Sheila T. Russell, though, many of the CURE petition signatures were illegible or otherwise invalid...
...rate was 34.4 per 100,000.) Worse, the cultural and legal attitudes toward rape are practically medieval. In Johannesburg, where the HIV-infection rate is reckoned to be 40% among men in the "rapist" age bracket (20 to 29), many believe raping a virgin will cure HIV. Earlier this month a prominent judge sentenced a 54-year-old man who had raped his 14-year-old daughter to just seven years in prison. Because the crime took place within the family, Judge John Foxcroft explained, little harm was done to the wider community. Furthermore, he said, by the time...
...offspring produced by mating those mice with the mice bred to develop heart failure had a normal life span with no side effects, the researchers said. While there's no evidence yet of the gene in people, the team says that the finding could one day translate into a cure for human heart disease...