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Many Still Believe That Saddam Hussein Was Behind 9/11, and Now We Have Some Idea Why
Of 49 people included in the study who believed in such a connection, only one shed the certainty when presented with prevailing evidence that it wasn't true. The rest came ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
A Victory for the 'Water Underground'
Bone-dry California eases restrictions on greywater use, allowing wastewater from washing machines and bathtubs to spill onto the state's lawn and lemon trees.Posted by Jay MacNamara -
Fostering Abortion With Soviet Gusto
One way America resembles the old Communist bloc can be found in the nexus of abortion and public health care.Posted by Jay MacNamara -
What Really Happened in Rwanda?
Researchers Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam say the accepted story of the mass killings of 1994 is incomplete, and the full truth — inconvenient as it may be to the ...Posted by Jay MacNamara -
Building an American Insurance Bazaar
Normally I'm proud of American exceptionalism. But the reason for the mess in American health coverage has nothing to do with any maverick individualist tradition. Americans ...Posted by Jay MacNamara -
Are America's Winds Slowing?
Wind speeds, expected to help propel the advance of renewable energy, may be slowing, a cautious new study suggests. Then again, they may be blowing even harder.Posted by Jay MacNamara -
Solar Power Helps Squeeze Last Drops from Old Oil Wells
Last month, the oil and solar industry joined hands in an oil field about a century off its prime that Chevron owns in Coalinga, Calif., where steam is required to ...Posted by W. MacKenzie -
Doctors With Borders Licensed for U.S. Practice |
After spending seven years studying to become a doctor in her native Mexico, Nidia Payan found herself having to sell tamales to make ends meet when she first arrived in Los ...Posted by Jay MacNamara -
Triaging the Train Wreck of Climate Change
Like many scientists, I didn't start out studying climate change; it more or less became a fact of life when the organisms I was studying started to die...I have been ...Posted by Jay MacNamara -
Charting Where U.S. Health Proposals Fall on Private/Public Scale
Hot on socialized medicine or cool with private payer, take the temperature of your favorite U.S. healthcare option with our handy-dandy Miller-McCune meter.Posted by Jay MacNamara
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Culture & Society Articles | Researchers Study 'Inferred Justification' of False Beliefs | Miller-McCune Online Magazine
Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.Posted by Jay MacNamara -
The Biggest Roadblock to Change May Be in Our Minds
When you step back from the specifics of the health care debate — as well as the rancor surrounding it — an odd contradiction emerges. Fairly or not, insurance companies ...via Miller-McCune -
Science & Environment Articles | Lester Brown Upbeat About U.S. Carbon Decline | Miller-McCune Online Magazine
Worldwatch founder Lester Brown, long known for dire prognosis, reports cheerful climate and energy news for United States.Posted by Jay MacNamara -
A Visit to Dirty Snow Cones National Park
The eponymous highlights of Glacier National Park are fast disappearing.Posted by Jay MacNamara -
The Real Cost of Ransom
The swarm of pirates buzzing around the so-called Somali Basin has grown since last year even though American and European navies now patrol those waters in force. "This year ...Posted by Jay MacNamara -
If Bridges Could Talk …
As rush hour traffic crawled across Minneapolis' Interstate 35-west bridge on a sultry August evening back in 2007, the roadway's central span suddenly gave way, plunging ...Posted by Jay MacNamara -
A Home Remedy For Day Care
Elizabeth Fair has been taking care of children since she was 14. Now a grandmother many times over, Fair shows off her newly established child care center, complete with the ...Posted by Jay MacNamara -
Did Financial Rules Mandate a Meltdown?
A libertarian look at the current pay kerfuffle for financial services companies suggests regulating executive compensation will not produce healthier capitalism.Posted by Jay MacNamara -
The Buds of Wrath
Sarah's whole street reeks of pot. This is not hyperbole. When you turn the corner onto this lane of 1970s tract houses, you smell the tang: the sour, earthy, green odor that ...Posted by Jay MacNamara -
Learning to Play the HARP
The Obama administration has a mortgage refinancing program that needs some tuning.Posted by Jay MacNamara
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