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This article talks about people not having jobs. This project allows people with disabilities to be able to join the work force again.

The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world. The project has been likened by web experts to China's attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives

The World Health Organization is taking on a new project called Quality Rights. The projects goal is to improve the health services given to the mentally ill. Abuse, violence, and mistreatment has increased in many mental heath facilities. These facilities also do not give employees the amount of training they need in order to care for the ill.

The Park 51 project in New York City is again under fire, this time for applying for funds from the 9-11 rebuilding fund. Critics and protesters think the project development is a "slap in the face" as people continue to debate its proximity to Ground Zero. Yet, how can the appropriation of public funding be legally withheld from a specific religious or cultural group?

This article speaks about a project that was brought forth by a student. In this project students were free to pick and organize their own classrooms. There were no quizzes, no grades, and no tests.

New York City's public Wi-Fi project is the latest in a long trend of companies offering free services. The services come at a cost, however. This WiFi can contain hackers just a few feet away chipping on your data and finding out about your bank accounts.

A very brief description as to what the Non-GMO Verified process and what it entails.

Yes, it happens here too. Girls as young as 9 are forced into becoming prostitutes in America. This is the vivid story of how a young girl was manipulated, and now how she is a team member of a group Polaris Project; helpings young girls like she once was get out of a bad situation.

A criminal in the state of Colorado does actually have the right to vote. If their sentence has been served, they are on probation or are currently serving time for a misdemeanor they have the right to vote.

This article discusses the SOPA and Project IP bills. Both bills are intended to stop online piracy and the SOPA bill has now been put onhold because so many have opposed the bill. Congress will need to make the bill more focused before trying to pass it agian.

Interesting facts about right or lack there of for the gay community. This site is also linked to numerous other informative sites and even current projects with more information as well.

Describes how certain human behavior is/can be based on genes but how a large part is based on culture. Also discusses how humans engage in 'group behavior' and how wanting to maintain membership in a group affects each individuals actions while in the group and how behaviors can change outside the group.

Verizon on Thursday filed a legal challenge to new federal regulations that prohibit broadband providers from interfering with Internet traffic flowing over their networks.

This would make a great topic for a research project.

McCain talks a little about repealing health care reform. Interesting topic to consider for a research project.

This article talks about the right to bear arms. It talks about a court case involved with this amendment and the outcome of the trial.

This site explores constitutional conflicts to the right to bear arms. The right to keep and bear arms not only predates the writing of the Second Amendment, it also predates the discovery of firearms, because the right to defend one's right to Life, Liberty, and Property came with the Creation of Man.

This article goes into the two major interpretations that go along with the right to bear arms. Goes into further detail of the second amendment and also provides some court cases that are about this amendment

This website outlines what the right to "privacy" really is. No where in the constitution does it state that we as Americans have any sort of privacy rights. It gives examples of court cases that failed because there was no right to privacy in the constitution like many people like to think.

PsychRights® Law Project for Psychiatric Rights Psychiatry: Force of Lawby James B. Gottstein, Esq. November, 2002 The purpose of this article is to set forth just the basic legal principles, underpinnings and practices employed in the widespread use of legal force to compel unwilling patients into locked psychiatric hospitals and, most importantly, force brain damaging drugs and other brain damaging treatments such as Electroshock upon them over their desperate, but hopeless objections.

Schizophrenia Antipsychotic Drugs: Prominent psychiatrist Loren Mosher argues for treatment of schizophrenia without antipsychotics. Describes Soteria Project. Criticizes overuse of Psychiatric Drugs

In Zablocki v Redhail (1978), the Court struck down a Wisconsin law that required persons under obligations to pay support for the children of previous relationships to obtain permission of a court to marry. The statute required such individuals to prove that they were in compliance with support orders and that marriage would not threaten the financial security of their previous offspring.

In the face of extraordinary advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human diseases, devastating illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and diseases of the nervous system, such as Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease, continue to deprive people of health, independence, and well-being. Research in human developmental biology has led to the discovery of human stem cells (precursor cells that can give rise to multiple tissue types), including embryonic stem (ES) cells, embryonic germ (EG) cells, and adult stem cells. Recently, techniques have been developed for the in vitro culture of stem cells, providing unprecedented opportunities for studying and understanding human embryology