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• ACLU says Pa. city demonizing immigrants
SCRANTON, Pa. - During a nine-day trial, a federal judge has learned a lot about Hazleton, a working-class former coal town that few outside Pennsylvania had heard of until the mayor declared war on illegal immigrants. Mayor Lou Barletta and his ...
• Sun Belt is growth hotspot
Ann Sekesan, a pharmacy technician, moved her family from Pennsylvania to suburban Fort Worth last June after seeing spacious homes in Texas for under $200,000 on a television show. "After we saw that on TV, my husband and I looked at each other and ...
• Opinion: 'Blade Runner' ruling subverts nature of sport
... raced before. It's not about giving him an opportunity. The issue is that Pistorius risks destroying exactly what he wants to do — compete in a sport. Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., is director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Why scientists dismiss 'intelligent design'
Irreducible complexity's main proponent is Michael Behe, a biochemist at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Among the systems that Behe claims are irreducibly complex are the bacterial flagellum, a microscopic whip-like structure that some bacteria ...
• Fossil study links extinctions to warming
... either team, said she was "blown away" by the Mayhew study and called it "very convincing." "This will give scant comfort to anyone who says that the world has often been warmer than recently so we're just going back to a better world," Pennsylvania ...