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Elementary and high school students in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia use finger scans to pay for lunch - and even to check into class. But in many other states, the parental outcry about privacy has stopped the technology in its tracks. Michigan and Iowa have passed laws essentially barring schools from taking electronic fingerprints of children. Last month, Illinois enacted a law requiring schools to get parental consent before capturing an image of a child's finger...
...leave Iraq within the next year, there will be a civil war. If we leave Iraq in four years, there will be a civil war. The difference will be in the number of American troops who will die in delaying the inevitable. Joseph A. Rihn Jr., Lititz, Pennsylvania...
Both ends of Pennsylvania Ave. were waiting to see the reaction of leading conservatives to the nomination Monday. The neo-conservative columnist William Kristol wrote a favorable op-ed online Saturday, but a right-wing Catholic group, Fidelis, voiced serious concerns citing his ruling in the Chinese asylum case and his appeal to the left. Senate Republicans were cautiously optimistic, but still worried. "Conservatives will respond well to Mukasey if conservative leaders point in that direction," one Senate Republican aide said Sunday. But he worried that any uncertainty among conservatives could be deadly. "Hesitation kills," he said, "It will...
...assessed, and up from the 43rd spot last year. Among the 11 criteria in the study were availability of condoms and other contraceptives, STD testing, health center operating hours, and strength of sexual health awareness programs. Harvard was directly tailed in the rankings by Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. The biggest drop for any Ivy League school came from Princeton, which sank 28 spots to 34th. The nation’s crown prince of coital prudence was the University of Minnesota—taking the mantle from Yale, which dropped from first place to number 16. The Report Card?...
...Despite France's 1999 ban, bee numbers there continued to drop. Studies of CCD have found no common environmental factor, meaning that Imidacloprid too could be simply one of many causes. All the unanswered questions have beekeepers buzzing. "Something out there is ruining my livelihood," says David Hackenberg, the Pennsylvania beekeeper who first reported CCD. "And there's nothing I can do about...