2007
12-17-2007
WASHINGTON, DC (Yahoo) $45 trillion gap seen in US benefits. The government is promising $45 trillion more than it can deliver on Social Security, Medicare and other benefit programs.
12-03-2007
WASHINGTON, DC (Yahoo) National debt grows $1 million a minute. Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day — or nearly $1 million a minute.
12-01-2007
Ames, IA (DesMoines
Register) Intelligent design theory influenced ISU tenure vote. Iowa State University professor Guillermo Gonzalez's support of the theory of intelligent design damaged his prospects for tenure long before his peers voted on the job promotion, according to e-mails from at least one professor in his department to those who decided Gonzalez's tenure request.
11-30-2007
Ames, IA (Discovery) News Conference Will Reveal New Evidence about Guillermo Gonzalez Tenure Case at ISU. Gonzalez was denied tenure at ISU earlier this year. While ISU president Gregory Geoffroy claimed that the decision was because Gonzalez “did not show the trajectory of excellence that we expect” and not because of his views on ID, it has become increasingly clear that his views on ID are exactly what led to his being forced out.
2006
12-31-2006
CORVALLIS, OR (Times, UK) Science told: hands off gay sheep. It raises the prospect that pregnant women could one day be offered a treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their offspring will be homosexual. Experts say that, in theory, the “straightening” procedure on humans could be as simple as a hormone supplement for mothers-to-be, worn on the skin like an anti-smoking nicotine patch
12-24-2006
LONDON, England (Times,
UK) A Christmas thunderbolt for the arch-enemy of religion. Professor Richard Dawkins has caused a sensation this year with the runaway success of his anti-religious book The God Delusion. Here, through the pen of John Cornwell, the Almighty delivers a counterblast.
12-12-2006
Ukraine (BBC News) Ukraine babies in stem cell probe. Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests. Disturbing video footage of post-mortem examinations on dismembered tiny bodies raises serious questions about what happened to them. Ukraine has become the self-styled stem cell capital of the world.
10-21-2006
WASHINGTON, DC (AP) Scalia Rips Judges on Abortion, Suicide. Deeply controversial issues like abortion and suicide rights have nothing to do with the Constitution, and unelected judges too often choose to find new rights at the expense of the democratic process, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Saturday.
10-06-2006
USA (Pew Forum) Evangelicals Fear the Loss of Their Teenagers. Their alarm has been stoked by a highly suspect claim that if current trends continue, only 4 percent of teenagers will be "Bible-believing Christians" as adults. That would be a sharp decline compared with 35 percent of the current generation of baby boomers, and before that, 65 percent of the World War II generation.
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