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Just like us: Immigrants embrace 'distinctly American' values
Much of the fervor fueling the anti-immigration debate is shaped by the belief that immigrants—legal and otherwise—are somehow a threat to our national identity. Americans, some critics believe, venerate a set of ...
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May 31, 2012 |
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New study reports rise in community land rights in tropical forests; most laws unenforced
New research released today by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) shows that hundreds of millions of forest peoples in tropical nations have, in the last 20 years, quietly gained unprecedented legal rights to the land ...
May 30, 2012 |
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Brazil fights illegal logging to protect Amazon natives
Brazil said Monday it was working hard to stop illegal logging in Amazon rainforest land inhabited by the ethnic Awa people, a group said to be threatened with extinction.
May 22, 2012 |
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Brazil's threatened Awa tribe outnumbered, group says
Brazilian authorities have admitted that the Amazon's Awa, "Earth's most threatened tribe," are outnumbered 10 to one in just one of their reserves, Survival International said Thursday.
May 17, 2012 |
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Girls face 'sexting' threat from peers
A report commissioned by the NSPCC, conducted in collaboration with King’s College London, reveals the level that ‘sexting’ has reached among teenagers, with schoolgirls facing increasing pressure ...
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May 16, 2012 |
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Caregivers must keep "a slice of selfishness," UW social worker
Several years ago, Wendy Lustbader cut back her counseling, teaching and writing career to spend one year as a caregiver. Her mother-in-law, in the final stages of colon cancer, moved from Florida to be looked after by Lustbader ...
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May 09, 2012 |
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Roboticist creates Hugvie - Huggable vibrating pillow smartphone accessory
(Phys.org) -- Japanese robot designer Hiroshi Ishiguro is fast becoming a sort of roboticist for the people, in Japan anyway. Instead of terminator style robots meant to do a lot of serious work or to serve on the battlefield, ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 01, 2012 |
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Research challenges idea raising aspirations is key to education success
New research carried out by Newcastle University challenges the idea that raising aspirations is the key to improving the education of children from low-income families. Liz Todd, Professor of Educational Inclusion at Ne ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 30, 2012 |
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Young adults who get parental support do better at study and work
Young adults who receive parental support are more likely to be studying and have access to better job opportunities than young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, according to a recent study by the Melbourne Institute ...
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Apr 26, 2012 |
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Keeping older drivers on the road
A research car which monitors our concentration, stress levels and driving habits while we're sat behind the steering wheel is being used to develop new technologies to support older drivers.
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Austria returns remains of S.African indigenous people
Austria will return to South Africa the remains of two indigenous people dug up and brought to Europe over a century ago for racial research, the authorities of both countries have announced.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Fear of threats associated with social circle size
Humans' fear level toward threats is associated with the typical size of our social circles, according to a report published Apr. 11 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.
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Apr 11, 2012 |
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Study: 800-year-old farmers could teach us how to protect the Amazon
In the face of mass deforestation of the Amazon, we could learn from its earliest inhabitants who managed their farmland sustainably. Research from an international team of archaeologists and paleoecologists, ...
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Young Americans less likely to drive
(AP) -- Driving is becoming so last century. Since the end of World War II, getting a driver's license has been a rite of passage for teens, but that's less and less the case. The share of people in their teens, 20s and ...
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Apr 06, 2012 |
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Study shows that religious people are better at understanding that small sacrifices lead to big rewards
Delayed gratification: People who are good at overcoming their immediate impulses to take small rewards now — in favor of larger rewards down the road — do better in many areas of life, including academic achievement, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 04, 2012 |
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