AUSTIN, Texas - Bypassing the Legislature altogether, Republican Gov. Rick Perry issued an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.By employing an executive order, Perry sidestepped opposition in the Legislature from conservatives and parents' rights groups who fear such a […]
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Texas governor orders STD vaccine for all girls
Interview
A long time ago, Doc Johnson interviewed me for an essay he was writing (and possibly for a future book), and I've now put the full text of the interview online. Click the title to read it. Oh, by the way, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Bit late I know. Oops :)[link]
Scientists Cure Cancer
Scientists may have cured cancer last week.Yep.So, why haven't the media picked up on it?Here's the deal. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know […]
Too much homework can be counterproductive
Instead of improving educational achievement in countries around the world, increases in homework may actually undercut teaching effectiveness and worsen disparities in student learning, according to two Penn State researchers.Most teachers worldwide are not making efficient use of homework, said David P. Baker, professor of education and sociology. They assign homework mostly as drill, to […]
Store bans a boy of two for wearing his 'hoodie'
A boy has been banned from a shop because he was wearing a hood - at the age of two. Jay Cowper was muffled up against the cold but he and his grandfather were told they had to leave their local store. The same shop in York recently banned a middle-aged nurse for wearing a […]
Go to your room..for 2 years
Authorities say the couple locked their teenage daughter in her bedroom for two years allowing her out for only a couple hours a day.A (Milwaukee) Wisconsin couple is behind bars, each one charged with one count of causing mental harm to a child, a felony. Advertisement"You see the sparkle in her eyes for all those […]
US: No-spank bill on way
SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature is about to weigh in on a question that stirs impassioned debate among moms and dads: Should parents spank their children?Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, wants to outlaw spanking children up to 3 years old. If she succeeds, California would become the first state in the nation to explicitly ban […]
US: Just another Mississippi school paddling
In January 2004, at an elementary school in Mississippi, Johnny was sent by his classroom teacher to the Principal's office to be punished. Johnny, who was 10-years-old at the time, did not know the reason for the punishment.He describes the instrument used on him as "a big solid wooden paddle." He remembers the first three […]
NYCLU Calls On State Regents To Reject Regulations Permitting Schools To Use Noxious Stimuli To Punish Students With Disabilities
The New York Civil Liberties Union today called on the New York State Board of Regents to reject regulations that would permit New York State schools to use electric skin shock, electric shocks, beatings, isolation, restraints, food deprivation, and other "aversive" stimuli to control the behaviors of children with disabilities.In June 2006 the New York […]
No longer free to move about the country
LAKEWOOD, Wash. - A 9-year-old boy who didn't like his suburban Tacoma home grabbed a car, got caught, was returned home to his mother, then ran away again and flew to San Antonio with a plane change in Phoenix before he was arrested, authorities said. Investigators and Southwest Airlines officials were trying to determine how […]
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