By Walter Brasch The Schuylkill County, Pa., justice system managed to do something that insurance actuaries do with mixed results–it determined not only the penalty for threats to a human life, but also the value of a human life. Norman E. Nickle, 54, who lived in Pottsville, the county seat, was sentenced in April...
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Today in Moronia
- Gail Collins: ‘Instantly, like a daffodil in spring, a new committee popped up’
- Extract of Chinese herb kudzu reduces alcohol consumption
- California school food standards change teens eating habits for the better
- New male birth control procedure said to be 100% effective, completely reversible
- Video of police fatally beating homeless man causes spectators to leave courtroom
- Gene Weingarten is alarmed at how cheap he’d sell his moral integrity
- Plants use perfume to attract beneficial bacteria to their roots
- Privatized prison labor competes with regular business at 93 cents a day
- There is no invisible hand
- Does Mitt Romney support paid sick days for working mothers?
Children
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12 Angry White People: Jury Nullification in a Coal Town
Better-fed children grow into smarter adults
Early-Life Nutrition May Be Associated With Adult Intellectual Functioning Media Contact: Ashante Dobbs adobbs2@emory.edu (404) 727-5692 Adults who had improved nutrition in early childhood may score better on intellectual tests, regardless of the number of years they attended school, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine,...
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If we don’t let them know what it’s called
Maybe they won’t notice when they’ve got one… The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter. Continue reading
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Christian pediatrician denies child service because parents are tattooed
“She had to go that entire night with her ear infection with no medicine because he has his policy,” Tasha Childress said.
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Toddler fight video shocks British police
“I didn’t see any harm in toughening them up” –A defendant Go to original on BBC.A jury at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court was shown the footage Footage of four women goading toddlers to fight has “stunned” police and social services in Devon. The seven-minute footage, filmed at a house by one woman, was shown in...
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