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...legislation—has recently come under question. In a study conducted by The New York Times, investigators found that six states that have recently enacted laws requiring either parental notification or consent saw no consistent drop in abortion rates. The study examined state health department records from Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, uncovering “a scattering divergent of divergent trends,” according to the newspaper. While in Virginia the number of abortions obtained by those under 18 eventually declined, in Arizona, Idaho, and Tennessee, the abortion rate among pregnant minors actually rose...
...zoom sound fun, but the ancient Maya are also called the Greeks of the New World--they invented the concept of zero, built astonishing cities and used a more complex calendar than ours. Gibson insists the glory gets its close-ups too. Says Richard Hansen, a Maya scholar at Idaho State University, head of the Mirador Basin Project and a consultant for Apocalypto: "This is by far the best treatment--the first treatment really--of the Maya any film has ever done. I'm amazed at the detail Mel's shooting...
...swayed unduly by the romance of working in remote locations and war zones and being paid a third of what their classmates make. Not to mention being looked down on by their professors and many of their classmates for not being as mercenary as Harvard University. RAYMOND T. SWENSON Idaho Falls, Idaho March 13, 2006 The writer is a retired lieutenant colonel of the United States Air Force...
...most notable gains were in the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale area of Arizona, where home prices have already almost doubled in the last five years. Last year, prices rose again by nearly 40%. Arizona's hot housing market helped push it, and its neighboring Mountain states - Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Montana and Utah - to the top of OFHEO's list of fastest-growing regions. The Pacific region - Washington, Oregon and California - came in next with regional prices increases of 18.75%. Home prices on the East Coast, in states from Maryland to Florida, showed their fastest growth rate since 1975, jumping...
...status of the dean search at Harvard Business School (HBS) uncertain.Summers appointed Acting HBS Dean Jay O. Light last June after the abrupt departure of the school’s then-leader, Kim B. Clark ’74, who took a post as president of Brigham Young University-Idaho. Though Summers has been leading the search process, some HBS professors have expressed doubts about the course of the dean search following Summers’ resignation. In an interview with The Crimson yesterday, Summers said he will guarantee that HBS and the Graduate School of Education (GSE), both of which...