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AP 2012-03-28

1. After a win in Louisiana, Rick Santorum is vowing to continue his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. That despite a big gap in the race for delegates. An Associated Press tally shows Mitt Romney has accumulated more than twice as

AP 2012-05-24

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CNN 2011-07-09

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SSS 2011-04-21

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SSS 2009-08-10

The so-called birthers cant accept that President Obama is really a natural-born American citizen. Part of whats behind this seemingly irrational belief may lie in whats called implicit social cognitionthe deep-rooted assumptions we all carry around,

SSS 2010-08-03

Why arent there more women physicists, and in senior positions? One factor may be unconscious biases that could keep women physicists from advancingand may even prevent women from going into physics in the first place. Amy Bug, a physicist at Swarthm

SSS 2012-01-19

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