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Smoking in particular has contributed to the widening gap, according to the authors, David M. Cutler, an applied economics professor, and Ellen Meara, an assistant professor of health care policy at the Mecical School. They cited education-related differences in cigarette use as a key factor...
...they? In all the examples of diminished civil liberties, there are few, if any, where the motivating factor was something other than law and order or national security. There are no scandalous examples of the White House using the Patriot Act powers for political purposes or of individual agents using them for personal gain. The Justice IG report released Thursday, for example, examined some 50,000 National Security Letters issued in 2006 to see whether the FBI misused that specialized kind of warrantless subpoena. The IG found some continuing abuse of the power, but blamed it for the most part...
MONTANA AND SOUTH DAKOTA Democrats may well emerge from these two primary contests without a clear nominee. If so, superdelegates would be the deciding factor at August's convention...
...Mississippi results underscored another recurring factor in the 2008 campaign. Democratic turnout, which was barely more than 75,000 in the 2004 primary, on Tuesday totaled more than four times that number. "I am grateful to the people of Mississippi for joining the millions of Americans from every corner of the country who have chosen to turn the page on the failed politics of the past and embrace our movement for change," Obama said Tuesday night...
Florida Dems have an ally in Michigan, which is in the same boat. But in Michigan, only Clinton was on the ballot - which adds a more pressing factor of fairness into its attempt at a revote. In the Sunshine State, both candidates were on the Florida ballot for a "non-primary" that drew a record number of Democrats to the polls. Clinton defeated Obama, and by party rules would take a percentage of the state delegates. Though a revote may likely change that number only slightly, ignoring even the possibility of a tiny change would be politically fraught in this...