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...rolls because adequate medical care was unavailable to them, but the order also cited concerns over public safety. "In these overcrowded conditions," the judges wrote, "inmate-on-inmate violence is almost impossible to prevent." Just last month, Federal Bureau of Prisons head Harry Lappin warned Congress that "crowded prisons result in greater tension, frustration and anger among the inmate population, which leads to conflicts and violence...
...also has a female problem. Obama won 56% of women voters in 2008, a 5-point increase over John Kerry's tally in 2004. And while about half of female Floridians voted for Bush in 2004, 52% went for Obama last year. As a result, says MacManus, a political-science professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa, "Crist could end up making a bold appointment when you consider how helpful a little diversity would be to the Republican image at this point...
...hardiness as a human scourge is the result, paradoxically, of the instability of its genetic structure. One flu virus can easily swap genetic information with another or mutate as it reproduces. The World Influenza Centre is one of five WHO centers (there are others in Atlanta, Tokyo and Melbourne, and there's a lab in Memphis specializing in animal influenza) that form the hub of a global influenza-surveillance network. The center receives samples taken from ill patients in more than 100 countries. By examining the genetic makeup of the viruses in these samples, scientists can make educated guesses about...
...Supreme Court rules in JFS's favor, it will save the school from having to devise religious-observance tests that, according to Susan Jacobs, an expert in Jewish ethnicity at Manchester Metropolitan University, could have the unexpected result of excluding nonpracticing Jews. But if the appeal fails, it could open the way for pupils refused entry to JFS - and any other religious school - to sue the school for racial discrimination. (Read "What Do Religions Believe? A Website with Answers...
Whatever the result, the Supreme Court's decision is bound to bring up more questions than answers and provoke continued debate on the issue of Jewish identity. As Kushner says, "This case just shows the impossibility of defining...