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Intact dilation and extraction (D&E;), a procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion, can no longer be performed in any circumstances, including situations in which the mother’s life is at risk, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5–4 decision two weeks ago in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart.
By Ralph Mayrell in News

2. To Hill and Back
Published Thursday, April 19, 2007

National mainstream media has given little press to three potentially influential bills in Congress relating to the role of religion in daily life and Constitutional law. While these bills remain in committee at this point, two of them are repeat proposals that have on prior occasion made it as far as the conference stage before being halted.
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3. Paying to Live
Published Thursday, February 22, 2007

A new drug known as DCA has been proven in tests by Dr. Evangelos Michelakis and his colleagues at the University of Alberta to kill lung, breast and brain cancer cells, leaving healthy cells intact. The problem, CanadaTV reported, is that DCA, or dichloroacetate, a medication that has been prescribed for years for metabolic disorders, cannot be patented.
By Ralph Mayrell in News

4. Middle East Conference Sheds Light on US Policy
Published Thursday, February 15, 2007

"I was asked to look for optimistic moments in the Middle East, and Iraq would not qualify,” New York Times Baghdad correspondent Ed Wong said of his initial invitation to speak at the Harvard Arab Alumni Association’s conference on the Middle East this past Saturday in the Tsai Auditorium. “All of the moderates are run out of the country. I don’t think there is a moderate center left in Iraq,” adding that the expatriate population of Iraq numbers three million.
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5. House Increases Wage, Senate Attaches Riders
Published Thursday, February 08, 2007

Both houses of the 110th Congress have voted to increase the minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $7.25. While the House passed the bill 315-116 absent any riders, the Senate’s 94-3 came with the additional baggage of tax cuts for small businesses, meant in theory to secure Republican support and prop up businesses unable to cope with the increased cost of labor.
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6. Getting the Last Word
Published Thursday, December 14, 2006

Subscribers to the IOP-Open list received a barrage of e-mails in the days leading up to comedian Stephen Colbert’s December 1st lecture at the Institute of Politics (IOP). Desperate to gain entrance to the Forum, students tried to purchase tickets from one another, with the Crimson reporting that the value of the scalped tickets approached $100.
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7. Nuclear Diplomacy
Published Thursday, November 16, 2006

Russia continues to effectively swing its UN Security Council veto over sanctions against Iran. The Kremlin says it hopes to prevent the isolation of Iran, ensuring that it will not be forced into a corner where it has nothing to lose by developing and testing nuclear weaponry – in other words, by following the lead of North Korea.
By Ralph Mayrell in News