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Are we finally ready to reduce racial bias in our courts?

While trends in American criminal justice have come and gone over the last century, what has remained tiresomely — and implacably — consistent has been the role of race as a factor in decision-making by jurists, juries and prosecutors alike. Seemingly unrelated events over the last few weeks suggest that a serious pendulum swing is […]
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Alpha Foundation awards $10M to 15 schools, United Steelworkers for US mine safety research

The other winners are the Colorado School of Mines, Northeastern University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Illinois at Chicago, and the universities of Kentucky, Utah, Pittsburgh, Arizona and Connecticut. Virginia Tech will work on through-the-earth communication systems and a new risk-management approach to safety, while WVU will work on safety systems at surface mines and […]
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Genes May Link Disparate Diseases

Diseases that strike different parts of the body—and that don’t seem to resemble each other at all—may actually have a lot in common.