Stonehenge may have been built to duplicate a sound-based illusion
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Scientists know that sound waves coming from opposite directions can cancel each other out, creating areas of relative quiet. Now an acoustic researcher has theorized that Stonehenge was designed to mimic this effect.
MD House approves same-sex marriage
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A Bill proposed by Maryland’s governor that will legalize same-sex marriage has passed in that state’s House of Delegates and will go to the Senate next week.
Prominent Republicans 'getting nervous' about Romney’s chances
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One “prominent Republican senator” told ABC News that “if Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” because with such a weak nominee “we’d get killed” in the general election.
Supreme Court allows Montana corporation election spending
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed a victory to corporations and a political advocacy group by allowing them to spend freely before Montana’s 2012 elections, a follow-up case to the court’s major campaign finance ruling two years ago.
NH Lawmaker suggests the pill causes cancer. In men.
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During a Thursday hearing on birth control coverage, New Hampshire state Rep. Jeanine Notter (R-Merrimack) claimed birth control cause prostate cancer in men.
Pot legalization gets enough signatures for ballot
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The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol said Friday that it had turned in more than enough valid signatures to get an initiative on the ballot this November in Colorado.