BURLINGTON, Vermont (Press Release) – Flanked by Vermont college students and graduates who are deep in debt, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said today he will introduce legislation to help students earn college credits in high school in order to cut the cost of earning a college diploma. Sanders said he supports a separate bill to lower
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Janice McCafferty CHICAGO — After seven rounds of intense and emotional IVF procedures, Stephanie Arnold became pregnant with her second child in October of 2012. All was fine until her 20th week ultrasound. Stephanie became overwhelmed with premonitions of her own death. She best explains this feeling as something that made every cell in
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– With Mother’s Day approaching on Sunday, May 11th, Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Friday, May 9, reintroduced legislation he first authored in 2009 to reduce tragically high rates of infant mortality. The Congressman’s Nationally Enhancing the Wellbeing of Babies through Outreach and Research Now (NEWBORN) Act would create a national pilot program in cities
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Editor’s Note: This is a new column about newsworthy members of San Diego County’s Jewish community. We’ll draw our accounts from local print, broadcast and Internet media, adding tidbits now and then from our own store of knowledge. The names of people we know are Jewish community members will appear in boldface type. SAN DIEGO – Two Jewish
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
RIALTO, California (WJC) — School district officials heresaid an assignment asking students to write an essay on whether they believe the Holocaust really happened was “horribly inappropriate”. The Rialto Unified School District made headlines when it gave eighth-graders the assignment to do some research and write an essay explaining whether they believed the Holocaust
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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday evening, March 8 passed bipartisan legislation – Strengthening Education through Research Act (H.R. 4366) – to improve research on education programs and ensure those programs are effective in meeting national education priorities. H.R. 4366 includes language from a bill carried by U.S. Rep.
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WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)– First Lady Michelle Obama joined the Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Susan H. Hildreth to present the 2014 National Medal for Museum and Library Service to the Yiddish Book Center. In its 20th anniversary year, the National Medal is the nation’s highest honor given to museums and libraries for
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release)– Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu will on 19 May 2014 at Tel Aviv University award the Prime Minister’s Prize for Initiatives and Innovation for the fourth time. The Prize was founded by the Prime Minister to award to initiatives and innovation that make a special contribution to society and are of far-reaching socio-economic
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Despite an addiction to taking pictures everywhere they go, cellphone junkies have not been able to ditch their stand-alone cameras quite yet. Smartphones still don’t possess the sharp zoom capabilities of digital still cameras, so the resulting pictures can be messy and out-of-focus. That won’t be the case for long, however.
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Obama administration on Tuesday, May 6, released the third U.S. National Climate Assessment, a comprehensive report on climate change and how it will affect the country and economy. The report, which summarizes effects of climate change on the United States, was compiled by a team of more than 300 experts. According to
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-Westchester/Rockland) and U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) today introduced the bipartisan Peace Corps Equity Act in the House and Senate which would extend basic reproductive health care services to all Peace Corp volunteers. Currently, female Peace Corps volunteers –unlike most women with federal health care coverage – are denied
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Science, Medicine, & Education
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) on Tuesday, May 6, introduced today with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and colleagues the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, legislation that would allow those with outstanding student loan debt to refinance at the lower interest rates currently offered to new borrowers. Over the last
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer has called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to step in and immediately halt Palcohol – a new and obviously dangerous powdered alcoholic product – from getting federal approval and hitting store shelves this fall. Palcohol is easily concealable, can be mixed with water and
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Science, Medicine, & EducationLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — Authors Cinda Johnson and her daughter Linea will be featured speakers at a luncheon of the Behavioral Health Committee of Jewish Family Service of San Diego at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 13, at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla. Cinda wrote the book Perfect Chaos: A Daughter’s Journey to Survive
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