Philosophy
Pigeons shown to have number sense
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 15:47.OTAGO, New Zealand, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Pigeons can match primates in their numerical abilities, such as putting numbers in order, New Zealand researchers say. read more »
U.S. Government Wins Access to Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Supporters
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 13:37.A federal judge today granted the U.S. government access to the Twitter accounts of three of WikiLeaks’s strongest supporters. read more »
Steven Hayes Sentenced to Death for the Deadly Conn. Home Invasion
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 13:14.Steven Hayes was sentenced to death by a Connecticut jury today (11.8.2010) for his role in the deadly 2007 home invasion that killed Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters. read more »
Student caught in middle: Dream of college awakes to the reality graduates face when here illegally
Submitted by bmidwinter on Wed, 09/15/2010 - 13:26.To advocates on both sides of the immigration debate, Miriam Torres is emblematic of the problems facing this country. read more »
Newshour Extra Video: How Technology Will Shape the Next Decade
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 20:30.Online churches draw believers, critics
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 19:24.(CNN) -- Hjalti á Lava was searching his iPhone for a Bible app when he stumbled across Church Online, a service of Web site LifeChurch.tv. read more »
Injunction by Twitter: Stopping a Web Impostor
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 21:14.British members of Parliament and their prospective challengers are thronging onto social-networking sites with all the enthusiasm and grace of dads getting down on the dance floor. read more »
Is 13 Too Young to Sail Around the World Solo?
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 08/30/2009 - 11:03.A Dutch court placed a 13-year-old girl in temporary custody on Friday, Aug. 28, after her parents insisted on supporting her bid to become the youngest person to sail around the world solo. read more »
Energy Management Startup Hara Nabs Coke as Client
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 00:04.Hara, which makes software for tracking natural resources, is only about 18 months old, but Coke is rolling out the software around the world. read more »
Researchers await federal stem cell funds
Submitted by dontlook on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 09:24.For eight years, scientists have taken extreme measures to continue researching how embryonic stem cells could treat illness and injury. read more »
NewsHour Extra Video: California Pioneers Renewable Energy
Submitted by Newsbyte on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 19:41.ISSUE OVERVIEW: Abortion, Marriage, Stem Cell research, Internet laws, John McCain
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 06:15.- ALL ELECTION COVERAGE
- General Culture
- General Health
- General Social Studies
- REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE: John McCain
- Government & Civics
- Issue: Abortion
- Issue: Same-sex marriage
- Issue: Stem Cell Research
- Law
- Mass Media issues
- Philosophy
- Policy
- Politics
- Religion
- U.S. History - Post 1877
- US Election 2008
- US History General
- Values/ethics
- Gender Studies
John McCain on Abortion, Marriage, Stem Cell research, Internet laws
Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life
Overturning Roe v. Wade
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Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 13:17.'Golden Compass' opens amid Catholic boycott (in Guam)
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 16:12."The Golden Compass," the movie version of the first book in Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy that has prompted a nationwide boycott by the Catholic League for its alleged atheistic messa read more »
Terminal patients refusing to die. Catastrophic financial consequences and ethical dilemmas for hospice care.
Submitted by NetGram on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 11:37.CAMDEN, Ala. read more »
A flood of moral issues: Monkey-cloning technology opens the box (topic: stem-cells/cloning)
Submitted by Mrs C on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 07:10.Human cloning is an issue that's now gone well beyond the realm of science fiction. read more »
Feds to ban veils at ballot
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/27/2007 - 23:53.Critics pan legislation that will require all federal voters to show their faces read more »
Ex-Members of the Far Right (Neo-Nazi) Warn of Life They Left
Submitted by newscaster on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 06:05.Germany is trying to fight rising neo-Nazism by, among other things, helping individuals deep in the far right scene to get out, get a job and a get new life. read more »
School to Offer Full Range of Birth Control to Students Over 11
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/20/2007 - 19:29.A middle school in Maine will become one of few in the nation to make contraceptives, including birth-control pills, available to students as young as 11. read more »
Artificial life born in lab
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 10/07/2007 - 00:32.If you thought maverick American biologist Craig Venter had settled down to a bald, bearded and buck naked existence on his luxury yacht Sorcerer II, emerging once a while to deliver talks on the fut read more »
China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 23:06.Getting Word Out About Shootings at Delaware State
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 09/21/2007 - 08:34.Someone shot and badly wounded two students on the Delaware State University campus in Dover around 1 a.m. Eastern time and is still at large this morning. read more »
Rebels Blow Up Pipelines in Mexico, Disrupting Service
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 21:57.MEXICO CITY, Sept. read more »
60 years on, Kashmir core issue Srinagar, Jammu poles apart
Submitted by newscaster on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 06:46.SIXTY years after the independence of the Sub-continent from British rule, the status of Kashmir remains the most contentious issue between Pakistan and India, with a survey showing that a majority of read more »
Catholicism is the only true church, Vatican declares
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 06:46.With Pope Benedict XVI's blessing, the Vatican released a document Tuesday that said the Catholic Church is the one true church and other Christian bodies shouldn't be called churches. read more »
