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To a country that expelled British troops more than two centuries ago and has long touted its democratic values, some of the mourning for Queen Elizabeth II over the last couple weeks or so can seem, perhaps, a little bit overwrought.She was, first of all, almost a century old, and had lived a ...

Time and plenty of trial and error have demonstrated that bloodletting is no cure for anyone suffering a serious illness, and is far more likely to make matters much, much worse.Lobotomizing individuals with mental illnesses and disabilities has long been discredited. The same goes for ...

Even if you are at an age where you’ve already attended a couple of class reunions, itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ still possible to feel a twinge of melancholy when you see back-to-school sales in stores, or when you see the blinking lights of a yellow school bus on a street early on a warm August morning.Who can ...

ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ back-to-school time, and that means itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ the season for news reports on how much teachers spend out of their own pockets on supplies for their classrooms.Inevitably, these stories shed light on the level of dedication teachers have, even when many of them are not adequately paid, and ...

Thanks to the vaccine painstakingly developed by Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh, the majority of the 8 billion people alive on Earth today have never known a time when the possibly of contracting polio was a daily worry.Before the vaccine was first made available in 1954, it was not ...

PennsylvaniaÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ state-related universities need to address what their response is to their gift from the governor.The state has four universities that fall into this category of public but not really public, private but not really private.They also are some of the largest in Pennsylvania.Penn ...