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By Joan Gralla

Image by Vincent J. Brown via Flickr

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state officials agreed on Friday to relax harsh 1970s drug laws that required prison sentences for nonviolent drug crimes in favor of laws that will let judges send addicts to treatment programs.
The new regulations will save the state about “a quarter [...]

From: The Charleston Gazette

by Ken Ward Jr.

The National Mining Association blasted EPA for “halting mining permits.” West Virginia Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito warned the Obama administration about not to “block mining permits.”  Coalfield environmentalists praised the federal government’s decision “to deny permits.”
OK. OK. Calm down everybody.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson (above, with President Obama) hasn’t denied [...]

From: The Nourished Kitchen

HR 875, also known as the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, was introduced by Rosa Delauro – a democratic party member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut – in February of 2009.  The title of HR 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, sounds innocuous enough – [...]

By Anne Eggebroten at WeNews
A Brazilian archbishop’s decision to excommunicate the mother of a 9-year-old rape victim who had an abortion, as well as the girl’s doctor, outrages Anne Eggebroten. She says Catholic leaders need to revisit their own religious teachings.
Editor’s Note: The following is a commentary. The opinions expressed are those of the author [...]

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From: Scientific American
Urban travel is slow and inefficient, in part because drivers act in self-interested ways
By Linda Baker
Conventional traffic engineering assumes that given no increase in vehicles, more roads mean less congestion. So when planners in Seoul tore down a six-lane highway a few years ago and replaced it with a five-mile-long [...]

From: Times Online

Thousands of women and children are dying as a direct consequence of the current economic crisis which is already derailing efforts to improve maternal care and cut child death rates, the head of the World Health Organisation has warned.
Speaking to The Times after a meeting of world leaders hosted by [...]

Hunger, which takes an unflinching look at an IRA hunger strike, is the furthest thing from a date movie. If anything, this brutal, brilliant film — the first by a British director who just happens to share his name with a Hollywood icon — is trying to break your heart.
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