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Special interest groups bipartisan in Congress, scholar finds

Special interest groups bipartisan in Congress, scholar finds

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Contrary to common perception, special interest groups are not responsible for the partisan division in Congress - and often join bipartisan coalitions to support legislation, according to a Michigan State ...


Campaign donors survey: Women and young people behind Obama's small donor success

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

More individuals gave more money to candidates for federal office, national and state party committees, and political action committees or other interest groups in 2007󈝴 than in any previous election. The surge in ...





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Many interested in broadband stimulus funds

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- "Cash for Clunkers" isn't the only economic stimulus program to attract a lot of takers.


Gratitude and financial virtue

Gratitude and financial virtue

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Study by Northeastern psychologist finds feelings of gratitude prompt people to share their financial resources.


Study: Benefit to women not enough to sway men to get HPV vaccine (w/Video)

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Informing men that a new vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) would also help protect their female partners against developing cervical cancer from the sexually transmitted infection did not increase their interest ...


One in four California adolescent girls has had HPV vaccine

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Less than two years after the HPV vaccine was approved as a routine vaccination for girls aged 11 and older, one-quarter of California adolescent girls have started the series of shots that protect against human papillomavirus, ...


Brain-behavior disconnect in cocaine addiction

Brain-behavior disconnect in cocaine addiction

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Parts of the brain involved in monitoring behaviors and emotions show different levels of activity in cocaine users relative to non-drug users, even when both groups perform equally well on ...


Plant Gene Mapping May Lead to Better Biofuel Production

Plant Gene Mapping May Lead to Better Biofuel Production

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By creating a 'family tree' of genes expressed in one form of woody plant and a less woody, herbaceous species, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...


Brain emotion circuit sparks as teen girls size up peers

Brain emotion circuit sparks as teen girls size up peers

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

What is going on in teenagers' brains as their drive for peer approval begins to eclipse their family affiliations? Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls ...


Health-care reform must respect patient autonomy

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As President Obama and Congress weigh changes in the nation's health care system they must avoid creating a system where physicians are financially motivated to pressure patients into mandated treatments that conflict with ...


Survey points up challenges for a Digital Britain

Survey points up challenges for a Digital Britain

Technology / Internet

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In the wake of Lord Carter's Digital Britain Report, an Oxford survey shows that one of the main challenges will be to change the perceptions of the third of the British population who choose not to use the ...


Medical journalists need improved conflict-of-interest standards, say Dartmouth researchers

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Two Dartmouth researchers call for greater scrutiny of the relationship between medical journalists and the health care industries they cover. Their study was published online today, Nov. 19, in the British Medical Journal, or BMJ ...



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