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Convited sexual offenders who are in their 40s, married and who earn at least $11 per hour are most likely to make it through half-way house treatment programs.

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Nearly three-fourths of history professors are not satisfied with their current level of using technology in their teaching, according to a survey conducted by a DePauw University history prof and executive director of the American Association for History and Computing.

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A recent study of 400 divorcing couples contains a number of surprising findings about divorce, among them the conclusion that there is little difference in how fathers and mothers fare economically after divorce, contradicting earlier studies. A new book, Divorced Dads: Shattering the Myths claims to correct past data errors.

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A majority of the nation's television news directors say the threat of being sued is producing a major chilling effect on daily news coverage, according to a national survey conducted by the University of Miami.

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Middle and high school students who participate in sports express less hostility toward their classmates and are more likely to graduate from high school and go on to college, according to the preliminary results of an ongoing national study.

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American children spend 1.3 hours a week reading, 1.7 hours studying, and 12 hours a week---one- quarter of their free time---watching television, according to a University of Michigan study that provides the first look since 1981 at how U.S. children spend their time.

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People who feel as if their hearts are beating louder than thunder with every severe storm watch and warning may have help in dealing with their fear of severe weather, thanks to a unique project that teams a University of Iowa professor and a noted Iowa meteorologist.

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A University of Iowa law professor who filed a friends of the court brief supporting a Monroe, Iowa, man's claim that he was unreasonably searched by a Newton police officer in 1996, says the U.S. Supreme Court justices will likely rule in the man's favor.

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In a recent study appearing in the American Psychological Association's November issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that as people get older, they become happier not sadder, psychologists from Fordham University and the University of Warsaw (Poland) report.

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Researchers at Wittenberg University and Case Western Reserve University reported in the November issue of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, on three studies to determine the effect of supportive audiences on skilled performance.

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We should be as concerned about where our teenagers work as we are about their schools because youth employment can have either profoundly positive or disastrous effects on the nation's teen work force. Potential youth workplaces should obtain "seals of approval" before adolescents ever work in them, says Stephen Hamilton of Cornell University, who worked on the National Research Council Institute of Medicine report, "Protecting Youth at Work."

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If you're in an emergency situation, the chances of you receiving help from witnesses may depend on your skin color and the number of bystanders. So says John Dovidio, professor of psychology at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY.

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Today's Hamilton College students are taking to swing dancing with the same enthusiasm their great-grandparents exhibited in the 1920s and 30s.

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In his recently released book, "Diversity and Unity," Martin Patchen, professor of sociology, takes a look at different approaches to handling racial and ethnic diversity. While not advocating any one approach, Patchen does point out a middle ground.

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Non-computer buffs may think of the Internet as a whole other world. According to a Texas A&M University professor, they're right. Its a real world where where everyone is part of a community so real it can even be mapped.

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As Minnesota prepares for a pro wrestler governor, a Northwestern University mathematician says voting system is un-democratic in a three-way race.

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Making sense of rural America's future, as well as its past and present, is the mission of Kenyon College's new Rural Life Center (RLC), which has established itself at Kenyon College to promote education, scholarship, and public projects about rural life. The center debuts at a critical time for Ohio's Knox County, which faces development pressures from metropolitan areas.

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Two University of Arizona psychologists have experimental data to show that things that were never experienced are easier to "remember" than things that were.

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Cult activity on college campuses will involve more students in the next five years so residence hall leaders need to be prepared. That's according to a new study by the associate director of residence life at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.

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Children's perceptions of God's distance depend on their parents' involvement in their lives, if the children desire a nurturing figure and if God is seen as their own gender. That's according to a new study by researchers at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

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Cornell University today (Nov. 3, 1998) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for an exchange of agricultural, nutritional and environmental information, as well as community and rural development knowledge.

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A new theatrical staging of stories by Flannery O'Connor, the first to be authorized in decades, will have its world premiere Nov. 5-15 at the University of Iowa, where O'Connor attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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Like a comet that blazes a trail through the night sky once in a blue moon, Frank Lloyd Wright's most ambitious and monumental creation -- Chicago's Midway Gardens -- came and went before most observers even knew what had passed before their eyes.

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International conflicts often appear as simmering disputes that suddenly erupt into full-scale war, taking the world by surprise. In reality, says a Southern Methodist University political scientist, war is at least as predictable as the economy. All it takes is listening to a countryís mass media.

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Girls remain a step behind boys in their confidence and participation levels in science classrooms, despite a hands-on teaching approach now popular in many science classrooms, according to University of Illinois research.

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"Going to the polls" takes on a whole new meaning when you're hospitalized. Volunteers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center make sure that all eligible voters who want to, can vote on election day -- right from their hospital bed.

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The impact wives have on their husbands' career choices depends not just on financial considerations, but also on the attitudes of both spouses, new research at Ohio State suggests.

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A new study uses an unusual source -- proverbs -- to reveal cultural differences in how Chinese and American citizens view risks and risk-taking.

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Contrary to popular belief, new research at Ohio State suggests that low self-esteem in adolescents does not lead to later delinquent behavior. Moreover, involvement in delinquent behavior actually lowers later self-esteem in teens, according to the study.

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Nostratic is a language hypothesized to be the common ancestor of a number of modern language families. A new book edited by Wisconsin and Ohio State scholars tackles the issue of whether Nostratic really existed.

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An NC State University archeologist discovered what was believed to be the oldest Christian church in the world in Jordan last summer. "All lines of evidence are converging to support the date of the church and its place in history."

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The National Science Foundation has awarded a group of Cornell University economists and engineers a multidisciplinary grant to study the effects of competitive markets on the reliable operation of the electricity supply system.

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In less than ten years, many employees will no longer have only health insurance but, also a medical savings accounts from their employers. Whatever's not spent will be saved for retirement, predict two Cornell University heath care management professors.

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Far more than any other drink or food, alcohol is shown on prime-time programs. Characters, including adolescents, drink on more than 40 percent of the shows, according to a new Cornell University study published in the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol.

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Conference at Northwestern University School of Law Nov. 13-15 will feature many of the 74 people freed from death row since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, as well as who's who of experts, celebrities.

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Studying to become an astronautical engineer may not necessarily launch students into space, but it may very well land them a lucrative career.

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The upcoming election is an opportunity for Vice President Gore to build momentum for a run for the presidency in 2000. Vanderbilt experts can analyze the impact of the mid-term election on Gore and other key political issues.

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Most college classroom cheating is committed by students who see themselves as being forced into the act, says a Ball State University researcher.

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The National Science Foundation is awarding eight universities nearly $2.5-million each to significantly increase the number of African American, Hispanic and Native American students receiving doctoral degrees in the sciences, mathematics and engineering.

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Distance learning has taken center stage at the University of Utah where the theatre department, in collaboration with Sundance Institute, has begun a new graduate program offering the nation's only on-line MFA degree in theater education and directing.

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Northwestern University researchers find that women are at a distinct disadvantage in the mating game, they published in the October issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The future of affirmative action policies and how they will continue affect universities and workplaces nationwide is the topic of "A Conference on the Future of Affirmative Action" set to take place at the University of Iowa Oct. 30-31.

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Many of the personal papers and records kept by Gen. William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan during the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals are now housed in the Cornell University Law Library, where they will be accessible to researchers, thanks to the efforts of New York lawyer and Cornell alumnus Henry Korn.

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The elderly can largely compensate for their loss of function with grab bars and other helping devices, a good diet and, surprisingly, several drinks a day, according to Cornell University health economist Nandinee Kutty.

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To mark its sixtieth anniversary, the Kenyon Review will recognize perhaps the most influential of America's postwar poets by hosting a "Celebration of Robert Lowell" November 6 and 7. The event takes place sixty years after Lowell left Harvard to attend Kenyon College, where he studied under John Crowe Ransom, who, in the winter of 1938, published the first issue of the Review.

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Carnegie Mellon University and The American Historical Association's Teaching Division will host a conference on Nov. 6-8 about new approaches for teaching history in secondary schools and colleges.

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In an effort to improve quality of services, increase the use of adult day centers, and assist in the development of start-up ventures, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded Wake Forest University School of Medicine a $1.9 million grant to launch a national technical assistance program to help move the field of adult day services forward.

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What Transforms Ordinary Citizens -- Farmers and Housewives, Teachers and Soccer Moms -- Into Environmental Crusaders? New Book Profiles Scores of Activists Who Made The Leap From Victims to Leaders, Defying Conventional Notions of What Makes a Hero.

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Cornell Cooperative Extension has published a 68-page manual, Prevention of Youth Violence, intended as a resource guide for youth-development and family-life professionals and volunteers. It identifies risk factors, summarizes major prevention programs and offers a variety of resources.

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Despite fears that President Clinton's personal scandal would demoralize Democratic voters in the upcoming mid-term elections, the 1998 Heartland Poll from the University of Iowa shows that Democratic voters in the Midwest are more highly energized than their Republican counterparts. The Heartland Poll, is conducted in election years at the Iowa Social Science Institute at the UI.