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• Preview of Honduran Elections

  
  The Monkey Cage — Authority: 555
  Gregory Weeks offers the following preview of what promises to be a highly contentious election in Honduras: Tomorrow’s presidential election in Honduras is notable more for who is not president than who will become president. Precisely why that is the case is not easy to summarize quickly. On June 28, President ...
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• Craig on Political Constitutionalism and Judicial Review

  
  Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog — Authority: 429
  Professor Paul P. Craig (University of Oxford Faculty of Law) has posted "Political Constitutionalism and Judicial Review" on SSRN. It will be published in Effective Judicial Review: A Cornerstone of Good Governance (C. Forsyth, M. Elliott, S. Jhaveri, A. Scully-Hill,...
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• Comprehensive Obesity Registry , A First for Bariatric Research

  
  Press About — Authority: 161
  RemedyMD’s solution addresses Institute of Medicine’s top 100 priorities and shifts focus towards research based on more comprehensive scientific evidenceSALT LAKE CITY – November 19, 2009 — RemedyMD, the leading provider of Disease Registry Softwares, today announced the first nationwide Comprehensive Obesity ...
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• It’s Not A T.V. Studio … Josh!

  
  A Bowl of Stupid — Authority: 114
  Yesterdays rant about the movie Singles, the truly amazing music that was produced in the early 1990s, and the comparative state of the music industry today, such as it is, got me thinking. And then it got me listening. And I noticed that the majority of my favorites from my iPod selection were put out [...]
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• Stomach hormone may help slow Parkinson’s progression

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 26 (ANI): Yale School of Medicine researchers have identified a hormone produced in the stomach that can help boost resistance to, or slow, the development of Parkinson’s disease.Parkinson’s disease is caused by a degeneration of dopamine neurons in an area of the midbrain known as the substantia ...
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• Post-hoc constitutional review à la française

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 506
  Post-hoc constitutional review is finally coming to France . As many comparatists know, constitutional review of laws has hitherto been limited to abstract review before laws are adopted, and it has only been about 20 years since the right to request such review was enlarged such that a group of 60 or more senators ...
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• Richard Karn: Past, Present, and Future of the Dollar

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 143
  Richard Karn, of Emerging Trends Report , was kind enough to provide us with this exclusive overview of he and his group’s most recent thoughts on the past, present, and future of the vaunted/maligned US dollar and the elaborate context within which it manages to remain the world’s reserve currency, as well as ...
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• What’s Best for Our Breasts?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 511
  OK, I’m jumping into this controversy about screening for breast cancer (mammograms, self exams, and the under- versus over-50 issue) a week late, but not because I haven’t been following the stories.  It’s kind of hard to know how to talk about one’s breasts when one has the perspectives of both an economist ...
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• BIICL: The Future of the Geneva Conventions

  
  International Law Reporter — Authority: 145
  Adam Roberts (Univ. of Oxford - Centre for International Studies) will speak today at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on "The Future of the Geneva Conventions." This is the fifth in a series of five seminars on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 in celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of ...
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• Integration through contract?

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 609
  Though European states have received increasing numbers of immigrants over the past few decades, they have failed to integrate these immigrants as successfully as traditional immigrant-receiving nations such as the United States and Canada.  There are undoubtedly many factors that contribute to this differential in ...
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• The Australian Interchange Experience

  
  Credit Slips — Authority: 462
  The New York Times ran a story on the impact of interchange regulation in Australia .  Calling it interchange regulation is somewhat of a misnomer.  The Reserve Bank of Australia in fact acted to bust up anticompetitive private regulation of interchange.  Payments are an area with intense regulation, but that ...
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• No Free Speech for Comparative Effectiveness Researchers?

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 538
  We have repeatedly argued why comparative effectiveness research, under ideal circumstances, would be a good idea.  As I said before : Physicians spend a lot of time trying to figure out the best treatments for particular patients problems. Doing so is often hard. In many situations, there are many plausible ...
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• Sloss: The Role of Domestic Courts in Treaty Enforcement: A Comparative Study

  
  International Law Reporter — Authority: 145
  David Sloss (Santa Clara Univ. - Law) has published The Role of Domestic Courts in Treaty Enforcement: A Comparative Study (Cambridge Univ. Press 2009). Contents include: David Sloss, Introduction Sean D. Murphy, Does international law obligate states to open their national courts to persons for the invocation ...
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• Could Scotland be the Next Slovakia?

  
  The Monkey Cage — Authority: 555
  One of the fun things about writing for a blog is that you never really know what is going to attract people’s attention. When I decided to post on suspicious election results in Russia and some musings about the potential for Tony Blair to return to Downing Street last week, I assumed the former topic would be ...
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• Stop Targeting Women

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 125
  The following post represents my personal opinion and not that of any groups or organizations with which I am affiliated. Okay, it’s enough already! Why is it that women are always the target? First it’s abortions, then mammograms, pap smears following closely, behind and now cosmetic surgery (although that’s ...
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• Comparative effectiveness looks like a real game-changer

  
  News — Authority: 127
  Theres a reason why we picked Dr. Carolyn Clancy among our "Fierce Women to Watch in Health IT" two weeks ago. The director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is a key figure in the federal comparative-effectiveness research program thats getting a $1.1 billion funding increase from the American ...
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• McKennirey on Reforming the Labour-Trade Linkage

  
  Workplace Prof Blog — Authority: 524
  David Doorey (York Univ. (Canada)) writes to tell us that a big wig Canadian official, John McKennirey, who was Canadas point person on North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC) bargaining and held various other senior positions in the Canadian...
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• Top technology trends for payers

  
  News — Authority: 127
  Health insurers will be keeping close watch on genetic testing and electronic medical records in 2010, according to the first of a planned annual series of reports from research organization ECRI Institute. Rounding out the top seven technology trends that payers should pay attention to in the new year are: Premium CT ...
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• The Snodgrass Tapes

  
  Archetype — Authority: 413
  Here is a hidden treasure in the web. Robert E. Snodgrass was an American entomologist who published extensively on arthropod anatomy and evolution during the first half of the twentieth century. He was as knowledgeable about arthropod morphology as he was a superb artist– you can see some of his illustrations ...
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• Bulto on Judicial Referral of Constitutional Disputes in Ethiopia

  
  Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog — Authority: 429
  Takele Soboka Bulto (Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne) has posted "Judicial Referral of Constitutional Disputes in Ethiopia" on SSRN. It will be published as part of "Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities," the...
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