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The case has renewed national attention on bullying and how schools define, prevent and respond to it. The federal anti-bullying bill introduced in the House of Representatives on May 5 would require schools receiving funding from the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to implement comprehensive anti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bullying: Suicides Highlight a Schoolyard Problem | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

In a word, politics. The funding ban was introduced by conservative Senator Jesse Helms, and Democrats - wary of being cast as soft on drugs - have been reluctant to reverse it ever since. In 1998, President Clinton said he intended to lift the ban, under a provision in place at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Isn't Funding Needle-Exchange Programs | 5/16/2009 | See Source »

The Christian Scientists have had some success in this area in the past. Founded in 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy, the Church of Christ, Scientist has worked for nearly a century with state licensing boards and legislatures to obtain recognition or acceptance for its practitioners, who treat injured or ill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Universal Health Care Cover Faith Healing? | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

What we need to do, that argument continues, is frame information about how much credit cards cost in a way that really drives the point home. In 2007, a group of Senators introduced a bill that would have required credit-card companies to state on each billing statement how long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Problem with Credit Cards: The Cardholders | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

While he celebrates participation and even dissension, Nesson is the guiding force at clinical meetings, seated at his large, elbowed desk, arms often clasped behind his head. The team’s legal argument has never lacked for novelty. When he initially took the Tenenbaum case, Nesson made it clear...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building the Public Domain, Part II | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

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