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For starters, President Bush’s black support grew from 9 percent in 2000 to 11 percent in 2004. That is no landslide, but it’s a 22 percent improvement in black support despite Bush’s being vilified by the media and Democrats for four long years.

In Ohio, President Bush’s support among blacks grew from 9 percent in 2000 to 16 percent in 2004. Given his tight race a...

The use of mercury as a treatment for syphilis, applying maggots to wounds and much else besides, most of which were largely or completely ineffective. Before antibiotics, pneumonia killed one third of those who contracted it. Surgery came with a huge risk of contamination, TB was a major killer and death from sepsis in childbirth was relatively common.

Prior to the discovery of penicilli...

Roseanna Audinett, a hurricane evacuee staying at the Pelican Haven shelter, is escorted by Caddo sheriff's Deputy Steve C. Douglas to an awaiting patrol car. She and another evacuee, Kelvin Williams, were arrested Friday because of criminal warrants in California. (Mike Silva/The Times)

Caddo Parish sheriff's deputies arrested two Hurricane Katrina evacuees on parole violations Friday...

Flopping down on a timeworn couch, Madison Bickel breaks into a production of sorts about energy drinks.

Her three friends sit smirking. Talk of Japanese anime, homework and house parties follows.

Then, more teens stream in to Source Teen Theater, a small suite on W Busch Boulevard.

Source tries to be a safe place for teenage concerns as well as a place to learn and teach.

After the 20 or so Source members settle in a circle on this Wednesday evening at the Source office, Amson asks, "Did anyone have any teachable moments?"

Some sure did. Condoms were the only form of birth control mentioned by a nurse at a camp some members attended during winter break.

So Source teens at the camp crafted a list of other options she could add to her presentation.

The Washington House has revived an expensive proposal to build a tunnel to replace Seattle's aging Alaskan Way Viaduct.

The vote came late Thursday as an amendment to the new supplemental state transportation budget. It reversed a House Transportation Committee vote from earlier this week that had essentially scuttled the tunnel option in favor of a replacement double-decker freeway alo...

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Genetically engineered joy would blind us to important truths Marvin Olasky

With that historically dire day, the Ides of Mar...

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Most young girls are required to tell their parents where they are going, when they are going to be home and with whom they are going. Parents have access to their academic and medical records until college and the list goes on, but where are the limits to what parents should know?

Representatives Grothman, S. Fitzgerald, Kedzie,...

France's highest court ruled Feb. 28 that gay and lesbian parents may extend parental rights to their partners.

The Cour de Cassation approved such shared rights when the couple is living in a stable union and when it is in the child's best interests. The judges upheld a 2004 decision by an appeals court in Angers in central France.

It was the first time the high court granted suc...