FURTHERMORE. . .

PR WATCH - A new study analyzing research on the biologic effects of
cell phone use found that industry-funded studies were far less likely
to identify negative consequences than studies funded by governments and
non-profits. Researchers analyzed 57 studies that appeared in the
academic literature between 1995 and 2005. Only a third of the
industry-funded studies identified a biologic effect with possible
health consequences from exposure to cell phone radio waves, while 82%
of the studies found such effects, as did 77% of the studies whose
funding source was not identified.

http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2006/9149/abstract.html

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DCRTV - Today's DC Post looks at how "bloggers" often don't adhere to
"journalistic standards," but maybe the Post ought to take a good hard
look about how so-called "traditional journalists" often don't adhere to
their own so-called "journalistic standards." Like when they're covering
entities that are owned by or affiliated with their newspaper's parent
corporation and which they themselves use to promote their own articles.
And how that "in bed with" situation impacts their coverage of rival
entities, which often don't receive fair coverage, or any coverage at
all. Or how about when "journalists" repeatedly and obviously rely
heavily on certain internet-based resources ("blogs") and then
repeatedly fail to credit them as a source of their research.

http://dcrtv.org/

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EMENDATION: The American Historical Assn Council says that it did in
fact approve the antiwar resolution passed at the Business Meeting over
the weekend, but made its approval contingent on the ratification by the
full membership in an email vote. - History News Network

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NEWSPAPER - The Santa Fe, New Mexico city council will adopt an
ordinance that allows police to seize and sell vehicles belonging to
motorists accused of driving under the influence of alcohol, regardless
of whether they have ever been convicted in a court of law. . . The
American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico may file suit against the
program because it takes property without due process beyond an
"administrative hearing" where a city employee decides whether to
confiscate the vehicle on behalf of the city.

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/15/1543.asp

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JENNA FISHER, UTNE - It's been a harsh winter for the independent press.
Alternative media have been dealt several blows with the recent
announcements that great indie magazines such as Lip, Clamor, and
Kitchen Sink would be closing shop. So when the Independent Press
Association, an advocacy-oriented member organization serving as a major
buttress of the independent press, announced it was folding after 10
years of service to the likes of magazines great and small, including
Mother Jones, Ms., and Harpers, the internet started buzzing with calls
of distress. According to a farewell letter to IPA members, posted by
Punk Planet, the association's downfall was rooted in its acquisition of
the distribution company Indy Press Newsstand Services. The outfit got
so far behind in its payments to publishers -- who were IPA members --
it was unable to raise enough money to keep going. City Limits reports
that a year ago Indy Press owed more than $500,000 to the publications
that had signed contracts with the organization. Unable to crawl out of
the red, the IPA decided to shut down and divvy the little remaining
money between creditors.

http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2007_282/news/12406-1.html

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DOUBLE-DIGIT GREEN CANDIDATE DISCUSSES CAMPAIGN
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/01/07/news/122429.txt

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PICKING THE RIGHT ENERGY SAVING LIGHT BULB
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/page.cfm?tagID=632&campaign=mts

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RAISING HISTORY IN HIGH SCHOOL

THE CONCORD REVIEW, Inc was founded to recognize and publish exemplary
history essays by high school students in the English-speaking world.
748 research papers (average 5,500 words, with endnotes and
bibliography) have been published from authors in forty-four states and
thirty-three other countries. The Concord Review remains the only
quarterly journal in the world to publish the academic work of secondary
students.

Many of our authors have sent reprints of their papers with their
college application materials, and they have gone on to Berkeley (6),
Brown (21), Columbia (13), Cornell (12), Dartmouth (10), Harvard (81),
Oxford (9), Pennsylvania (14), Princeton (41), Stanford (24), Yale (64),
and a number of other fine institutions, including Amherst, Bryn Mawr,
Caltech, Cambridge, Chicago, McGill, MIT, Smith, Trinity, Wellesley,
Wesleyan, and Williams.

Some sample essays online:

The Town of Pullman: Local Grievances Cause a Nationwide Strike

The Nazi Influence in the Formation of Apartheid in South Africa

A Brief History of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and its
Reocurrence throughout the Twentieth Century

A Victim of Circumstance?: World War One and the Collapse of the British
Liberal Party

The Establishment Clause's Effect on Religious Freedom

A Blow To Labor: The Homestead Strike of 1892

Baseball's Negro Leagues

http://www.tcr.org

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COURT: ADULTERY IN MICHIGAN PUNISHABLE BY UP TO LIFE IN PRISON

BRIAN DICKERSON, FREE PRESS COLUMNIST - In a ruling sure to make
philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's second-highest court says that
anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for
first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life
in prison.

In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's
second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling
can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony
punishable by up to life in prison. "We cannot help but question whether
the Legislature actually intended the result we reach here today," Judge
William Murphy wrote in November for a unanimous Court of Appeals panel,
"but we are curtailed by the language of the statute from reaching any
other conclusion."

"Technically," he added, "any time a person engages in sexual
penetration in an adulterous relationship, he or she is guilty of CSC
I," the most serious sexual assault charge in Michigan's criminal code.

No one expects prosecutors to declare open season on cheating spouses.
The ruling is especially awkward for Attorney General Mike Cox, whose
office triggered it by successfully appealing a lower court's decision
to drop CSC charges against a Charlevoix defendant. In November 2005,
Cox confessed to an adulterous relationship. . .

http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070115/COL04/701150333

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