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People on terrorist watch list allowed to buy guns
When people on the government’s terrorist watch list have tried to buy guns or explosives in recent years, the government has let them the vast majority of the time. That’s the finding of a new report by the Government Accountability Office, sent to lawmakers last month and released publicly Monday.
The Human Cost of Climate Change
Climate Change: The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis The Global Humanitarian Forum; 117 pages Download the PDF The Gist: Quick: What does global warming look like A forlorn polar bear stuck on a splintering glacier makes for a gripping visual, but a new report says there are millions of climate-change victims we don’t see — and many look just like us.
Restoring the Draft: No Panacea
Even as there’s talk inside the Pentagon of extending the troop surge in Iraq well into 2008, the U.S.
Forget Math. Women Lag in Becoming English Professors!
So much for the theory that maternity leave and childrearing are responsible for slowing women’s climb up the employment ladder. Despite increasing efforts to mint more female professors in recent years, a new report from the Modern Language Association of America shows that women take longer than men to get promoted from associate professor to full professor — regardless of whether they are married or have children.
Iran ready to build nuclear weapon, analysts say
Iranian scientists have reached "nuclear weapons breakout capability," according to a new report based on findings of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency.
Sex trade, forced labor top U.N. human trafficking list
Sexual exploitation and forced labor are the most common forms of human trafficking in the world, a new report from the U.N.