Research is confirming the medicinal effects that advocates have long claimed for meditation.

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Here is NOW’s response and alarm about an anti-abortion bill he tried to get passed in 1997. I had not been aware of this, but the current climate in our country makes it pertinent. Father Pavone and others are planning on ramping up their opposition, so we need to know these things.

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Source: [b]The Sacremento Bee[/b]

RENO, Nev. — A stampede of opposition is growing over a proposal being considered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for the first time to kill or allow unrestricted sale of wild horses captured from western public lands because of budget constraints.

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Source: [b]Wired[/b]

The Obama-Biden transition team on Friday named two long-time net neutrality advocates to head up its Federal Communications Commission Review team. Werbach_kevin Crawford_4

Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC…

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Liberal-leaning interest groups are euphoric about Barack Obama’s election, of course — and their conservative counterparts are correspondingly glum. But political scientists say that giddy liberal advocates now compiling policy wish lists for the first Democratic president in eight years and his party’s more robust majority in Congress may well end up disappointed. And the [...]

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