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Instead of ringing in the New Year with champagne, Will Trembaly and Rob Gonsalves have a slightly different plan: they'll be testing an invention that has been more than six months in the making...
...chance to work together in November 1998. Trembaly was talking to a friend who worked for First Night Boston, the city's annual New Year's celebration. The friend remarked that the organization was looking for First Night project submissions...
...new act will restore about 10 percent of the lost funding at teaching hospitals nationwide...
...deprive Iowa of its most cherished piece of political pork, ethanol subsidies, has also made the state hostile territory for the insurgent. "McCain wrote off Iowa a long time ago - his strong stand against ethanol subsidies wasn't designed to win over Iowans, but was addressed to audiences in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Arizona, where he's pouring resources into beating Bush," says Carney. "Then again, you have to ask whether being booed on national television actually helps a candidate...
They still teach kids about the birds and the bees. It's just that these birds wear chastity belts and the bees pretend they have no desire whatsoever to pollinate the local flowers. According to new studies by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, that's pretty much the script in one third of American public schools. Such abstinence-only programs, which are particularly widespread in the South, keep the lesson simple: Sex before marriage is wrong, and contraception does very little to keep pregnancies or STDs at bay. Critics charge that abstinence programs ignore the realities...