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...somewhere between half and two-thirds, depending on the poll. But politicians know that a 69% approval rating is nothing to sneeze at. Only one state has abolished capital punishment since the Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976: New Jersey, last month. Legislatures in New Mexico, Montana, Nebraska and Maryland appear to be within one or a few key votes of following suit. New York's high court struck down that state's death penalty without stirring up much protest. But while that means 14 states now have no death-penalty law in effect, the majority of states...
...Last year, a federal court in Washington State threw out a "no match, no vote" law. Since then several states, including California, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas, have voluntarily dropped similar policies. The current case is one of many controversial voter identification lawsuits being heard in courts around the country. The most notable, concerning an Indiana law, is slated to be heard by the Supreme Court early next year...
LOST IN THE MAIL Since the 2001 anthrax attacks, which killed two postal workers in Washington, the city's postmark itself has become endangered. Letters sent from the U.S. capital are increasingly displaying Maryland postmarks as more processing services are outsourced to the burbs...
...1970s. While 34.3% of married women ages 40 to 44 had four or more children in 1976, only 11.5% did in 2004, according to the Current Population Survey. Though factoring in affluence can be statistically tricky, an analysis by Steven Martin, associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, shows that the proportion of affluent families with four or more kids increased from 7% in 1991-96 to 11% in 1998-2004. Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University, speculates, "For most people, two is enough because there are so many other competing ways to spend your...
...MARYLAND MESS The iconic blue crab has had a tough year. As the Chesapeake's season comes to an end, scientists expect one of the lowest harvests in more than 60 years as a result of pollution and catch allowances that may be too permissive for a population in severe decline. The bay was home to 852 million crabs in 1993, but now there are only 273 million...