washingtonpost.com - KansasKansasIn Kansas, A Sharp Debate on Evolution- May 8, 2005 TOPEKA, Kan., May 5 -- Debating a question that the scientific establishment considers settled, Kansas education authorities put evolutionary theory on trial Thursday in a hearing marked by sharp exchanges over Earth's origins and what students should be taught in science class.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41615-2005May6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/k... Negroponte Stresses 'Mandate' for Change- May 8, 2005 Bush's choice to be first director of national intelligence promises to correct leaders who mischaracterize intelligence and plans to use his new authority to make the 15 agencies more cooperative.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47077-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Teachers, Scientists Vow to Fight Challenge to Evolution- May 8, 2005 TOPEKA, Kan., May 4 -- Alarmed by proposals to change how evolution is taught, scientists and teachers are mobilizing to fight back, asserting that educational standards are being threatened by what they consider a stealth campaign to return creationism to public schools.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38465-2005May5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/k... Kansas Abortion Clinics Fight Data Request- May 8, 2005 Two Kansas clinics are opposing efforts by the state's attorney general to obtain the medical records of more than 80 women who received late-term abortions in 2003.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35009-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... House Urged to Set Aside Politics to Give D.C. Vote- May 8, 2005 Bipartisan backers of legislation to grant the District a vote in Congress yesterday urged House leaders not to allow political divisions to thwart efforts to give representation to 550,000 U.S. citizens in the nation's capital.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35392-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/k... Dole Shares War Story in Memoir- May 8, 2005 On Christmas Day 2004, former Senate majority leader Robert J. Dole had a chance encounter at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with Craig L. Nelson, a 21-year-old soldier who had been seriously wounded by a bomb in Baghdad.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40497-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/k... Is for the Many Meals She Made- May 8, 2005 My grandmother's hands are wrinkled and buttered and floury.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35272-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/k... Telecom Chiefs Defend Proposed Mergers- May 8, 2005 Four top telecommunications executives Tuesday defended two major proposed industry mergers as good for U.S. consumers and the economy before a Senate panel studying possible anticompetitive impacts of the deals.-The Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38649-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... District Warned on Gay Marriage- May 8, 2005 The mayor acknowledges that the city could jeopardize its budget agenda and domestic partner benefits if it mishandles the issue.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6007-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/k... Conservatives Draft a 'Bioethics Agenda' for President- May 8, 2005 Frustrated by Congress's failure to ban human cloning or place even modest limits on human embryo research, a group of influential conservatives have drafted a broad "bioethics agenda" for President Bush's second term and have begun the delicate task of building a political coalition to support it.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15569-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/k... |