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People’s beliefs about the health effects of “third-hand smoke” are positively correlated to the extent to which smoking in their homes is prohibited, according to a recent Harvard study. “Third-hand smoke,” a term coined by the study’s authors, is defined as the smoke that remains after a cigarette is extinguished. The study, which was led by Jonathan P. Winickoff, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, sought to uncover the health beliefs...
Papal spokesman Father Federico Lombardi was forced to clarify that the Vatican continues to condemn the use of the death penalty for any crime, including those associated with homosexuality. Instead, Migliore said the Vatican's opposition to the U.N. proposal was driven by concern that countries that prohibit gay marriage would somehow be targeted. Said Migliore: "Countries that don't recognize the union between people of the same sex as marriage will be punished and pressured...
...addition to the calendar changes, the Commission added a clause this year to prohibit campaign giveaways—including candy, food, and merchandise—and guidelines to guard against tampering with votes...
...that year, it helped provide Christmas meals to more than 100,000 people. In 1901, the first of many mass sit-down Christmas dinners at Madison Square Garden was funded by kettle donations. Despite occasional bans over the years on kettle set-ups outside stores and malls, which sometimes prohibit the bell ringers on the grounds that they block foot traffic and invite others to solicit at entryways, the Salvation Army says it raised $118 million through the program in 2007. (The charity is also in the process of distributing a $1.5 billion donation from Joan Kroc, the wife...
What's more, even states that prohibit gay adoptions have a very hard time refusing to recognize adoptions that are done in other states. Unlike marriage licenses, which are administrative in nature and subject to less powerful constitutional protection from state to state, an adoption takes effect by an explicit ruling by a judge. Adoption rulings are, therefore, the kinds of decisions that the U.S. Constitution's Full Faith and Credit Clause was designed to protect across state borders...