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They used a new brain scanning technique to ‘talk’ to the 29 year old Belgian man who damaged his brain in a car accident and has been classified as being in a vegetative state.
The patient was able to communicate “yes” and “no” using just his thoughts during a research conducted by a team from Cambridge University.
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(AP) – MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Evangelists from Kentucky have again preached outside at Middle Tennessee State University-the site of a physical confrontation between one of them and a student last fall. Three men from PinPoint Evangelism-a Christian organization based in Adair County in south-central Kentucky-spoke Thursday as rain fell and some students waved protest signs and shouted at…
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LONDON, February 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – People who spend a lot of time browsing the net are more likely to show depressive symptoms, according to the first large-scale study of its kind in the West by University of Leeds psychologists.Researchers found striking evidence that some users have…
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By Hilary WhiteFebruary 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Boys who see pornography regularly are more likely to have sexual relations and harass girls in school, a new study has found. Michael Flood, a researcher with the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, said…
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By Patrick B. CraineMONTREAL, Quebec, February 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A professor at McGill University has published a strong condemnation of the Quebec government's "policy against homophobia," which was released in December. Warning that this policy represents a "declaration…
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Attending a Catholic college has minimal impact on a Catholic student’s practice and embrace of the Catholic faith, according to a new study released Sunday at a gathering of Catholic college presidents in Washington, D.C., reports LifeSiteNews.com.
The study was presented to the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) by researchers at Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA).
“Catholics should be alarmed by the significant d… >>
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The Christian Science Monitor – New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush started the fashion among college football players of writing messages on their eye black patches, using the iconic “619†configuration to celebrate his San Diego area code while he was at the University of Southern California.
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Globe and Mail “We took the religion out of it,” says Geoffrey Fong, a health psychology professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, who co-authored the study … Reader CommentsU.S. News & World Report (blog) Groundbreaking Study Proves Abstinence Education WorksChristian News Wire (press release) all 400 news articles » |
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Two hot-button issues – abortion and free speech – are clashing in Washington state, as lawmakers attempt to regulate what is said in crisis pregnancy centers.
About 250 people packed the chambers of the state’s Senate Health and Long-Term Care Committee earlier this week for a hearing on Senate Bill 6452, a proposed law that requires crisis pregnancy center counselors to communicate only “medically and scientifically accurate” reproductive health information – even though what is “accurate” has been hotly contested, even in the committee’s chambers.
The bill’s sponsor, State Sen. Rodney Tom, D-Medina, for example, backed by a doctor from the University of Washington, claimed that in some cases, center volunteers have misled women to believe that abortion increases their risk of developing ovarian cancer.
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Mexico City, Mexico, Feb 1, 2010 / 02:50 pm (CNA).- A legal expert from the Institute for Legal Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Jorge Adame Goddard, said last week that Mexico City’s recent decision to allow same-sex “marriage” and homosexual adoption are both “unconstitutional.”
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Vanderbilt University is distancing itself from a Muslim chaplain after he told a gathering of students homosexuality is punishable by death under Islam.
“I don’t have a choice as a Muslim to accept or reject teachings. I go with
what Islam teaches,” said Awadh A. Binhazim, who is listed on the Vanderbilt website as “Adjunct Professor of Islam at the Divinity School” and an adviser to the Muslim Student Association. His comments came earlier this week at a diversity event for students.
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A growing number of science students on British campuses and in sixth form colleges are challenging the theory of evolution and arguing that Darwin was wrong. Some are being failed in university exams because they quote sayings from the Bible or Qur’an as scientific fact and at one sixth form college in London most biology students are now thought to be creationists.
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NORMAN – The University of Oklahoma College of Law and the Oklahoma Law Review have scheduled a free, public symposium on litigation surrounding the Ten Commandments monument on the Haskell County Court-house lawn in…
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — At the March for Life last Friday, pro-life advocates confronted Father John Jenkins. He is the Notre Dame university president who is under fire for allowing President Barack Obama to give the college’s commencement speech and by giving him an honorary degree.
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RIVERVIEW – Kat Heckenbach grew up in Riverview and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Tampa. A self-proclaimed science and math geek, she discovered a passion for writing while attending East Bay High,
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The Miami Archdiocese’s St. Thomas University is once again sponsoring spiritual exercises by a gay-activist priest, who is known for encouraging his followers to immerse themselves in pagan rituals, reports Eric Giunta, LifeSiteNews.com.
Fr. Richard Rohr, a Franciscan, is scheduled to deliver a “Scripture and Spirituality” reflection at the university’s Chapel of St Anthony. The evening of reflection is noted approvingly in the Archdiocese’s latest “pastoral bulletin,” dated Ja… >>
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By Eric GiuntaJanuary 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Miami Archdiocese’s St. Thomas University is once again sponsoring spiritual exercises by a gay-activist priest, who is known for encouraging his followers to immerse themselves in pagan rituals.Fr. Richard Rohr, a Franciscan, is scheduled to…
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The Catholic campus ministry at the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a debate next Monday on whether the government should recognize same-sex “marriage.” The speakers will be Maggie Gallagher and Jonathan Rauch, reports Catholic News Agency.
Gallagher, a political and social commentator, has written three books on marriage. She is the president of the National Organization for Marriage, which has led several political battles to preserve or restore the definition of marriage as… >>
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(AP) – SAN FRANCISCO – Sexual orientation can be fluid, but the vast majority of people have identities that are consistently heterosexual, gay or bisexual throughout most of their lives, a social psychologist testified Friday in a trial challenging California’s gay marriage ban. Lawyers for two same-sex couples suing to overturn the voter-enacted ban called University of California, Davis researcher Gregory Herek as their final expert witness to bolster their argument that sexual orientation cannot be easily changed. The point is central to the plaintiffs’…
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According to the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, a majority of Americans registered to vote opposes public funding for abortion under the Obama administration's health-care reform legislation.