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Evidence points toward solving evolutionary 'missing link'

2013-04-11 19:07:00

With long arms, high shoulder blades and powerful fingers, the ancient creatures were built for climbing trees. But they also had long lower limbs, flat feet and a flexible lumbar spine that gave them a distinct evolutionary edge: They could cover long...

Circumcision study supports HIV theory

2013-04-15 23:16:00

Circumcision is known to reduce a man's risk of HIV infection by at least half, but scientists don't know why. A new study offers support for the theory that removing the foreskin deprives troublesome bacteria of a place to live, leaving the immune system...

Secret tape of McConnell bashing Ashley Judd: Anatomy of a smear

2013-04-09 10:40:00

Mother Jones strikes again. The magazine that brought us the “47%” speech that killed off Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy came out Tuesday with a recording of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and some of his aides discussing how to...

Senate candidate seeks ruling on contributions by gay couples

2013-04-08 18:17:00

WASHINGTON — While they await a Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, gay rights advocates are taking their fight to a new arena: campaign finance law. A Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts who supports gay marriage has...

Justice for genocide in Guatemala?

2013-02-10 00:00:00

GUATEMALA CITY — When a judge ruled to admit all the prosecution documents and expert witnesses in the genocide trial here of Gen. Efra�n R�os Montt last week — ensuring that Guatemala will be the first country in history to try one of its own...

Aaron Swartz's father on U.S. attorneys: 'They destroyed my son'

2013-01-17 17:27:00

When Aaron Swartz was 3, he taught himself to read. When he was 4 or 5, he could read the New York Times, his father says. When Aaron was 14, he invented the software behind RSS, the information distribution service. Five years later, he started a...

One bit of Aaron Swartz's legacy: Fixing a bad law?

2013-01-16 17:49:00

As predicted, the suicide of Aaron Swartz, the widely admired hacktivist who helped create RSS and Reddit, has provoked at least one lawmaker to seek changes in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA -- the law that federal prosecutors were using to...

Trips to the moon for sale soon? Wait and see

2012-12-07 14:21:00

It's been exactly 40 years since NASA's last manned lunar mission, Apollo 17, launched from the Kennedy Space Center. This week, the National Research Council released a report that said that the space agency was losing its edge and needed to hone its...

Aaron Swartz suicide has U.S. lawmakers scrutinizing prosecutors

2013-01-18 14:47:00

Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that's morphed into a posthumous cause celebre. Aaron Swartz, 26, a cofounder of Reddit and an open-Internet advocate, committed suicide...

Reddit cofounder Swartz struggled with prosecution before suicide

2013-01-15 06:00:00

Aaron Swartz saw a closed world and wanted to crack it open. His suicide by hanging in New York last week has reignited the conflict between the values of property possession and digital openness and intensified debate over the government’s...

Bill Nye, the (planetary) science guy, on NASA's future

2012-12-06 15:48:00

What should the future of our space program be? The National Research Council had unpleasant medicine for NASA in its just-released report on the vision and direction of the agency. A panel of 12 independent experts concluded, among other things, that...

'Django Unchained' was more than a role for Kerry Washington

2012-12-31 17:32:00

On screen and off, Kerry Washington is a strong woman with strong convictions. Not only does she play the tough political crisis manager Olivia Pope on ABC's highly rated show "Scandal," she also commanded the national stage on the final night of the 2012...

The Chicago law firm of Arnstein & Lehr LLP is pleased to announce that Alex W. Zabrosky has joined the Chicago office as a partner in the business practice group.

2013-04-02 00:00:00

Erie Family Health Center has promoted Iliana A. Mora to chief operating officer. Mora joined Erie Family Health Center in 2002 and has served as senior vice president of strategy and business operations since 2008.

2013-03-20 12:11:00

Phil Lebovitz, institute director. Tapper worked as practice group administrator for The George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates from September 2009 until joining the institute.

2013-02-04 00:00:00