What does it mean to "use" a firearm? If the answer to the question seems simple enough, a surprising number of courts have had difficulty in interpreting a 1986 federal law that places special penalties on drug traffickers who "use" a firearm.
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School-age children who are homeless have higher rates of mental health problems than other children, research at Ohio State suggests.
The modern welfare system sprang from a reaction against the orphanage system, Johns Hopkins political scientist Matthew Crenson found. Now, some critics of welfare suggest revisiting the concept of orphanages -- and, in fact, they weren't all bad, Crenson says.
A Cornell University study finds that less than 1 percent of the older population lives in a group housing setting. More group housing would minimize the number of inappropriate nursing home placements.
Popular assumptions about a cavernous self-esteem gender gap may be greatly exaggerated, according to a new analysis of nearly 150,000 respondents by University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologists.
Existing abstinence-based drug prevention methods work only 20 percent of the time. A drug prevention authority examines the youth movement Straight Edge and its values of sobriety and sexual abstinence that have a powerful allure for some teens on Long Island, NY, and may have implications for a national drug policy.
Descriptions of groups or individuals including the words racist, militant, threatening, terroristic and secluded might bring about visions of the Ku Klux Klan, the Montana Freeman or even Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, but never a neighbor, friend or church group. However, a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher recently conducted studies on a group that might be just around the neighborhood corner and just as dangerous.
The changing structures of today's families sometimes make it hard to decide who is responsible for taking care of family business - everything from wills to child support to elderly care giving. Researchers at MU have published results that might help.
Unemployed single mothers would prefer to work, but often lack the job skills or child care to do so, according to a study by nurse-researcher at Case Western Reserve University.
Recent shooting sprees, like the Fourth of July weekend rampage by Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, can be directly linked to a strong tradition of free speech that protects even the most offensive forms of expression, said a professor of criminal justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
A University of Iowa professor has teamed up with seven Native American tribes to teach aspiring archaeologists how to respect artifacts and human remains of Indians, an approach he hopes will catch on nationally.
Parents making preparations for possible problems surrounding year 2000 computer bugs had better take time to talk with their children about the issue, says a Purdue University Extension specialist.
A new study of violence between intimate partners by two University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologists reveals a problem of disturbing scope, with as many as one third of respondents reporting being either victims or perpetrators of physical abuse.
A major study by a North Carolina State University criminologist links murder rates with the prevailing economic environment. Simply stated: murder rates decline as the economy soars; murder rates climb as the economy sours.
Teachers and mental health professionals from across the country and around the world will be in Columbia this week to learn more about caring for young victims of war and school violence.
The role psychologists can play in the prevention of teenage violence, helping people cope with and prevent serious diseases and addressing the problems associated with Internet use and the nearing Y2K problem will be prominent themes of the 107th Annual convention fo the American Psychological Association to be Held in Boston August 20-24, 1999.
A study published in the July issue of the American Psychological Association's journal Developmental Psychology demonstrates that age-related differences in memory are related to storage capacity, not a processing efficiency.
Two Wheaton College (IL) professors trace impact of evangelical Christianity on modern American sports. Highlights careers of figures like Eric Liddell, Gil Dodds, Bill McCartney, Bill Glass, and Mike Singletary.
Virginia voters have clear views on what is and is not a fair campaign advertisement and are prepared to punish candidates who make unfair charges, according to a new study conducted for the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia.
A new study examining fluctuations in mortality has found that significantly more deaths occur in the U.S. during the first week of each month, and that this peak in deaths may be due to substance abuse by people who receive government support payments at the beginning of the month.
Georgia Duerst-Lahti, political scientist and incoming leader of the national Women's Caucus for Political Science, has been fielding many "wrong" questions from talk show listeners regarding the U.S. Senate race looming in New York. She has come up with 14 questions she would like to ask.
A new book by a St. Lawrence University professor calls into question forms of oppression -- gender, racial and economic -- that lead society to grant privileges to members of nuclear families.
Foster children who get mentors show improvement in their peer relationships, a building block that helps them to develop trust in other people, a new study says.
Sometimes the data don't tell you what you want to know, like the meaning behind the causes of infant death that are reported on official death records. And that was what a Washington State University Vancouver researcher wanted to understand.
A June 22 Supreme Court decision ruled that state governments cannot deny smaller group home care to the mentally ill if it is medically justified for them to move out of larger mental institutions.
In a series of studies over the past decade with school children in Maine and Illinois, a University of Maine psychologist has taken a close look at why some children use force to get their way while others shrink from such behavior.
Minimum wage hardly helps poor workers; instead, we should expand the Earned Income Tax Credits that targets workers with low family incomes, says a Cornell University professor who testified on minimum wage policy before a U.S. House of Representatives Committee.
Mary Manhein is a forensic anthropologist who is often touched by the people whose bones she handles.
The upcoming 100th anniversary of the annexation of Hawaii will likely be celebrated with a tidal wave of Hawaiian nationalism, says historian Tennant McWilliams, Ph.D., dean of the UAB School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Columbine High School student Grant Taylor survived the mayhem without injury, but he was haunted by nightmares. The role of dreams in emotional recovery will be discussed during the 16th annual International Dream Conference at UC Santa Cruz July 7-10.
While great strides have been made through the years in treating the human side of epilepsy, it's only recently that progress has been made in diagnosing and treating epilepsy in the animal world.
W. H. Freeman and Company has announced publication of Context is Everything: The Nature of Memory, by Susan Engel. The book explores how the context of a recollection--place, company, purpose, and situation--affects the essence and experience of the memory.
From survey results and in-depth interviews, three BYU professors studying media use by women with eating disorders concluded that pointing a finger at the media for causing eating disorders is overly simplistic.
Nearing the June 18 release date for the final report of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, a new, non-sponsored university study concludes that counties with casino gambling have an 8 percent higher crime rate on average than counties without casinos. The study found that higher crime rates donÃt occur immediately, but typically begin emerging in the third year after a casino opens in a community.
A new review of psychological research shows that exercise is an effective but underused treatment for mild to moderate depression. The review was published in the June issue of Professional Psychology.
Oregon Health Sciences University, and Portland Area Veterans Affairs psychologists, surveyed 625 licensed psychologists in the state about their role in determining the mental state of the terminally ill and published the results in the June issue of Professional Psychology.
A new reproductive and child health programme is underway in India--the world's second most populous country--setting in motion a paradigm shift in the provision of reproductive health services in the country--from a focus on achieving method-specific contraceptive targets to providing client-centered quality services.
Saliva is an important biological testing fluid of the future. It can be used to index the levels of a variety of biological markers known to be linked to developmental processes, social behavior, and high-risk health behaviors.
Researchers from around the world, members of the Association of Genocide Scholars, will gather at the University of Wisconsin-Madison June 13-15 to exchange insights into genocide and develop strategies to combat it at their third annual conference.
How much time U.S. children spend with their fathers, and what they do together.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and "Healing the Children," have teamed up to help 24 youngsters from around the world, most of whom have needed major operations, receive medical care that would otherwise have been unavailable to them.
Two University of Michigan students have proposed a disease prevention program that is designed to encourage teen girls on Depo-Provera to use condoms and to educate them about sexually transmitted diseases.
Can spiritual healing play a role in diagnosing, treating and preventing disease? Furthermore, is it possible to address these questions from a scientific standpoint?
Southwestern University recently launched a medical assistance effort to aid refugees in the Balkan nations of Macedonia and Albania by putting out a call for volunteers to alumni and friends of the Texas liberal arts college.
A neuroonclogist from Cedars-Sinai and his wife, a pediatrician, will travel to Ireland for 12 days this July to donate medical services to 90 seriously ill European youngsters at the Barretstown Gang Camp.
A two-part series on heart disease -- focusing particularly on the risks to Hispanic women -- was awarded a 1999 C. Everett Koop Media Award by the American Heart Association Western States Affiliate.
Project Vote Smart, the nationally recognized, nonpartisan voter education group, and Washington State University are launching a new partnership aimed to aid both American voters and the education of WSU students.
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Some of the talk about making people and organizations more accountable may amount to just that -- talk with little real payoff, a Carnegie Mellon University study shows.
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