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This time, Shaheen benefited from strong anti-incumbent sentiment that experts predict led to Democratic pickups in the House and Senate races and a presidential victory for Democrat Barack Obama...
...Hampshire Governor John Lynch, a Democrat who was once the dean of admissions at Harvard Business School, also won reelection yesterday. Shaheen’s close ties to Harvard have brought her strong volunteer support from students since she announced her candidacy...
...course, true international action on climate change will require strong support at home - and it's not clear that exists yet. (Bush gets the blame for ditching Kyoto, but don't forget that the Senate in 1997 voted 95-0 that the U.S. shouldn't sign onto the protocol in its finished form, and President Bill Clinton never brought the treaty to Congress.) It'll be up to the next President - with the help of a somewhat greener Congress - to change that, even as he copes with a hemorrhaging economy. But there's one bright side for President...
...Silverman is not alone in asserting that Obama’s policies towards Israel are strong. Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz recently published an opinion piece in which defended his support of Obama because “the election of…a liberal supporter of Israel will enhance Israel’s position among wavering liberals.” Last week, Steve Grossman, former president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, championed Obama’s commitment to Israel’s security at a discussion of the candidates’ foreign policies at the Harvard...
...relationship between exposure of this kind of content on TV and the risk of later pregnancy is fairly strong," says Anita Chandra, a behavioral scientist and the study's author. "Even if it were diminished by other contributing factors, the association still holds." Such consistent exposure may explain in part why the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is double that of other industrialized nations. Chandra and her team interviewed 1,461 teens ages 12 to 17 by phone, speaking to them three times between 2001 and '04. While previous studies exploring the effect of TV content on teen pregnancy relied...