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There's no denying that bisphenol A (BPA), the latest headline-making toxin, is ubiquitous - it's in hard plastic water bottles, the lining of food and beverage cans and, most disturbingly, the plastic baby bottles that most parents commonly use. What's less clear, however, is exactly what effect BPA has on human health...
...graduate fellow in government and social studies, said that the “Bradley effect” is “a systematic difference between how black candidates poll before the election and how they perform in the election itself.” But Hopkins said that the Bradley effect is unlikely to play a major role in future elections. In his study, which was released earlier this year, Hopkins analyzed gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections between 1989 and 2006 that featured either a black or female candidate. Using three pre-election polls per candidate, Hopkins found that the Bradley...
...Thousands of volunteers, all across the country, young and old, are taking time off school, time off their jobs—literally putting their lives on complete hold—all because of the common belief that we can effect positive change in this country,” Grimm said...
...import of the planned meeting between Kagame and Kablia. Human rights groups have accused Congolese forces of colluding with ethnic Hutu militias thata fled neighboring Rwanda to escape justice for their role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The Congolese government has repeatedly promised to disarm the militias, to little effect. On the other side, Kagame, an ethnic Tutsi, has ties to the eastern Congolese rebels. That group says it is fighting to protect ethnic Tutsis in Congo who have been persecuted by both the Congolese government and the Hutu militias...
...second highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world at 39.3 percent. McCain plans to cut the corporate tax rate by 10 percent, encouraging businesses to hire more workers and remain in the US. Obama’s plans to raise the corporate tax rate would have the opposite effect; businesses would be forced to cut jobs and may choose to leave the US for a nation with lower taxes. Despite his recent rise to fame, Joe the Plumber may only have a future in Calcutta...