3 Entertainment and Gtech Ink 'The Three Stooges' Lottery License Pact.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-18 February 2008-3 Entertainment and Gtech Ink 'The Three Stooges' Lottery License Pact(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com 3 Entertainment, The Three Stooges brand owner, announced that it has signed Gtech Corporation to a licensing agreement for the highly successful Three Stooges brand lottery program.Numerous state lotteries,...

Missing pedophiles: online predator hysteria.
IN MARCH, London's Daily Mail reported that a British elementary school had obscured the heads of children in group photographs on the school's website with oval smiley faces, "apparently to protect them from paedophiles." The widespread anxieties underlying that bizarre incident are almost entirely off the mark, according to...

"The First of Causes to Our Sex": The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848.
"The First of Causes to Our Sex": The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848. By Daniel S. Wright. Studies in American Popular History and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2006. xii + 279 pp. $110.00 cloth. Daniel Wright's study on the female reform movement, whose...

New Hampshire wells tainted by gas additive.
The gasoline additive Methyl tert-butyl ether, more commonly known as MTBE, is widespread in New Hampshire's groundwater, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A study published online Jan. 1 in Environmental Science & Technology examined data on samples taken in 2005 and 2006 from more than 800...

'First freedom first' offers 10 church-state questions to ask the candidates.
This year's crop of presidential hopefuls has talked about where they go to church, how they interpret the Bible, what they pray for and other spiritual matters. But where do they stand on crucial religious freedom issues like "faithbased" initiatives, "intelligent design" and church-based politicking? ...

Nielsen: 13 Million U.S. Households Not Yet Ready for Digital TV Conversion.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-18 February 2008-Nielsen: 13 Million U.S. Households Not Yet Ready for Digital TV Conversion(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com More than 13 million households with television sets that can only receive analog broadcasts are currently unprepared for the transition to all digital broadcasting that is scheduled for...

FDA panel backs two-dose oral rotavirus vaccine: concerns on G2 serotype may affect label.
GAITHERSBURG, MD. -- A federal advisory panel agreed that an oral live attenuated rotavirus vaccine that is administered in two doses was safe and effective in preventing gastroenteritis caused by rotavirus serotypes G1, G2, G3, G4, and G9. However, they recommended that certain safety issues associated with...

Election day reality: no registration=no vote (in most states).
Why is registering voters just as important as getting voters to the polls on Election Day? Because on Election Day in the majority of states, "no registration" is equivalent to "no vote." Admittedly, there are seven states (Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Wyoming) that allow Election...

Two more states take a stand on the North American Union.
Although it is more difficult to get state resolutions introduced and passed in even-numbered years due to fewer states being in session and election-year shortened schedules, the state legislatures in Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Utah have been considering anti-NAU, repeal NAFTA, and anti-illegal-immigration resolutions inspired...

Contact dermatitis may accompany incontinence.
CHICAGO -- Chronic use of sanitary pads and panty liners for urinary incontinence may put patients at risk for vulvar contact dermatitis, Dr. Lynette J. Margesson said at a conference on vulvovaginal diseases sponsored by the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology. Some women with urinary...