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Although South Dakota's Measure 11 included more exceptions to the outright abortion ban - for example, allowing abortion in rare cases of incest, rape or when the mother's life or health are endangered - than a similar initiative that was defeated in 2006, the new measure was rejected by 56% of voters yesterday. According to Kristine Wilfore, executive director of the Washington-based nonprofit Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, which advocates socially progressive issues, the initiative would have set in motion a future challenge to Roe v. Wade if passed. "It was an effort to get as close as possible...
...fact that [Dumaine] exists is fascinating and very encouraging,” Schrag said, indicating that the deputy director’s awareness that the environment potentially “poses a huge risk” to the nation’s security was a rare trait...
...might be right: at nearby polling sites like the Little Havana Housing Project 1, the long early morning lines that are usually close to 100% Republican sported a rare mix, perhaps 60-40, of McCain and Obama supporters. Even so, Basurto says he's still not telling anyone in his neighborhood whom he voted for until he sees the results tonight. "Mejor para ahora quedarme quieto," he says - better to stay quiet for now. - By Tim Padgett / Miami
Texas: Who Did Early Voters Go for? 10:45 a.m. E.T. Visits by Presidential candidates Obama and McCain have been as rare as jackalope sightings in Texas this campaign season, but apparently that has not dampened Texans' enthusiasm for the contest. Early voting turnout broke all the records this year with 8.5 million voters casting their ballots in the state's 15 most populous counties before early polls closed on Halloween eve. When the early vote totals come in from the state's other 239 counties the numbers could be staggering and Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade is anticipating...
...Gist:Of all of the assorted manners of creative expression - cinema, literature, dance, theater, music, architecture - visual art is the most inscrutable. It is swaddled in layers of pretension, seemingly produced, discussed, and traded by a rare, elite few. Yet, as Thornton argues, more people seem to be buying and consuming art than ever before. Structured as a series of seven day-long dips into the community's various subcultures, Thornton's book explores (among other things) the floating jealousies at a high-end auction, the exhausting, freewheeling process of an art school critique session, and the machinations behind...