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• Violence against gays a problem in Amsterdam
... were carried out spontaneously by poorly educated young men who feel their masculinity has been questioned. "In 40 percent of cases the trigger is if people think they're being targeted" for seduction, said Laurens Buijs, one of the study's authors ...
• Congress votes to extend jobless benefits
Without the legislation, the authors say, 1.1 million people will have exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits by the end of the year. Congress has enacted federally funded extensions seven times in the past 50 years during economic slumps ...
• A galaxy far, farther away
In addition to Aloisi and Grocholski, the co-authors included Marco Sirianni of ESA and the Space Telescope Science Institute, or STScI; Jennifer Mack and Roeland van der Marel of STScI; Luca Angeretti, Donatella Romano and Monica Tosi of Italy's ...
• Inspired by Obama, novelists might drop satire
Authors cite not just Obama's ethnicity, but his youth and his bearing. "He's charismatic, with a young family, and he's multiracial, and I think for all of those reasons it would be very hard to accept the sort of traditional, white Donald ...
• Indigo plant may treat chronic skin disease
The indigo naturalis ointment-treated lesions showed an 81 percent improvement, the (non-medicated) ointment-treated lesions showed a 26 percent improvement," the authors wrote. For 25 of the patients, plaques that were treated with the indigo were ...