...SANTA FE - The jury in the trial of Carlos Fierro ended its second full day of deliberations today around 4:30 p.m. and planned to return 9 a.m. Thursday to continue work on reaching a decision in the...
Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009, 16:41 MST
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... 2009 Santa Fe Area - Property Statistics Based on reported sales from the Santa Fe Association of REALTORS® MLS. SFAR MLS does not guarantee nor is in any way responsible for its accuracy, Dat...
Wednesday, Apr 08, 2009, 17:57 MST
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...Families facing rising prices might be tempted to hunker down and go the self-reliance route. Grow your own food, for example. But that might not always be the most efficient, or at least economic, ro...
Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008, 09:34 MST
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...I've come across a blogger who delights in data -- and draws some undoubtedly dubious deductions from the digits. "Inductivist" tells us that average IQs of college students have decline...
Thursday, Jun 05, 2008, 08:55 MST
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...Maybe you saw the story in today's Journal about risky behaviors that teens engage in. It's another study that came out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that comes up with a ...
Thursday, Jun 05, 2008, 05:49 MST
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...Hispanic workers are more likely to die on the job -- especially foreign-born Hispanic workers -- than workers of any other ethnicity, according to an interesting new study released today by the Cente...
Thursday, Jun 05, 2008, 05:25 MST
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...Usually churches are eager to bring more parishioners to their pews. But a church in Minnesota actually has taken out a restraining order to keep one of their members from attending.The issue, accordi...
Tuesday, Jun 03, 2008, 11:50 MST
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...Jesse Bering has an interesting blog item about recurring dreams. You know, the ones that keep coming back to you year after year as you sleep. One theory is that it helps us rehearse responses to thr...
Tuesday, Jun 03, 2008, 11:24 MST
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...Here's one problem the Department of Homeland Security won't be tackling anytime soon: income insecurity. There's more of it these days, according to a report from the Economic Policy Inst...
Tuesday, Jun 03, 2008, 09:47 MST
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...Five Baylor students have been pedaling their way across New Mexico -- on their way from Waco to Alaska -- to raise awareness of suicide prevention. They launched this effort after a good friend surpr...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 08:46 MST
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...When you say "domestic violence," the scene that usually springs to mind is of a man yelling and hitting a woman. Well, women are more likely to suffer serious physical abuse, but the hidden...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 08:31 MST
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...The Commonwealth Fund has put out a report that it says shows that states with fewer insured children tend to have worse health care for those kids. Like many such studies, though, it doesn'...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 07:31 MST
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...Is the traditional American family shrinking? Susan Newman says in her blog that the one-child family is the fastest-growing unit in this country, even though most people in polls still give two child...
Friday, May 23, 2008, 09:28 MST
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...I've got to credit the science blog, Of Two Minds, for making me aware of an endlessly entertaining and informative web site on vintage drug ads.You can learn about Pabst extract, a tonic of &quo...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 11:20 MST
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...Some parents undoubtedly wonder if playing violent video games will turn their teens into serial killers. A number of studies have suggested that kids who play the games may end up accepting violence ...
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 08:17 MST
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...In some cases, your delusions might be good for you.If you think you're popular and well-liked, you can do well in social situations -- even if your perceptions of your popularity are unfounded. T...
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 07:59 MST
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...Here's an obituary of the baby who died in Alamogordo, whose death I wrote about in this morning's paper. It's always sad when a baby dies, and media coverage of this one has gotten s...
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 05:51 MST
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...OK, I don't want to sound like a shill for Tara Parker-Pope, but I've come across another posting that set off a round of reader reaction. She writes about a psychological interpretation of pe...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 10:00 MST
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...Many families look forward to a tax refund check showing up in their mail. It's a nice treat that comes with spring. Every year, I drop my federal and state tax returns into the mail on the s...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 06:18 MST
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...Encouraging news for kids getting glasses: Your classmates won't see you as any less attractive. At least that's the implication of an Ohio State study of kids' perceptions of attractivene...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 06:12 MST
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...Tara Parker-Pope at The New York Times had a blog entry yesterday telling why, according to a study, kids at day care aren't taken outside to play. Only one kid showing up in cool weather without ...
Thursday, May 08, 2008, 08:38 MST
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...Drop some cookie crumbs in a classmate's lunchbox. Go to jail.That was the recipe for a Kentucky 8th-grader who crumbled some peanut butter cookies into the lunchbox of a fellow student -- one wh...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008, 09:12 MST
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...About 2.1 percent of this nation's young people 14-21 have a gambling problem, according to a nationwide study. Gambling seemed to increase with major life changes, such as moving away from home, ...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008, 07:59 MST
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...Divorce might not be all that bad for kids. It's what happens afterwards that can hurt them, according to an Ohio State researcher.Yongmin Sun found that what really can affect kids is an unstable...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008, 07:45 MST
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...Suggestions are cropping up that pediatricians take a few moments to screen for domestic abuse when they see their little patients. Not child abuse -- but spousal abuse. The thinking is that children ...
Friday, Apr 18, 2008, 05:44 MST
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...There's good news and bad news for women on the housework front. A Michigan study tells us that we're doing less housework -- 17 hours/week in 2005, compared to 26 hours in 1976. Men's ave...
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008, 08:11 MST
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...Researchers in Liverpool suggest that the rising popularity in international adoptions may be tearing more children away from their birth families. They found that countries in the European Union whe...
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008, 07:17 MST
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...OK, this probably comes as no surprise to anyone in touch with youth culture, but now we have a published study letting us know that rap music glorifies drug use. The intriguing angle to my eye was th...
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008, 06:12 MST
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...Want to have some fun? How about siccing a couple of kids on each other and watching them fight? Even though dogfighting is illegal in most states, it appears doing the same with children is legal -- ...
Friday, Mar 28, 2008, 11:40 MST
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...Have you ever wished you could follow your teen around everywhere? Some day you may have a chance. (Consider this a heads-up to any teens who might be reading this.)Researchers report that an experime...
Tuesday, Mar 25, 2008, 09:57 MST
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...As that demographic bulge known as the Baby Boomers moves into their Golden Years, many of its members no doubt are reflecting on where they've been and where they're going.If you're one o...
Tuesday, Mar 25, 2008, 08:57 MST
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...Here's a depressing statistic (or maybe not, depending on your point of view): In the last 20 years, state spending around the nation has increased 21 percent for higher education while spending o...
Friday, Mar 21, 2008, 10:28 MST
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...A new study has come out with the hook: "Money buys happiness -- but only if you spend it on someone else." Apparently people given a bonus were happier with themselves if they gave it away ...
Thursday, Mar 20, 2008, 10:24 MST
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...Sometimes gender equality has a down side. A Chicago newspaper report on a sexual harrassment trial of an Illinois state official says that the boss called her employee a "boy toy" and...
Thursday, Mar 20, 2008, 10:02 MST
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...This may come as a surprise with all the news about scanty savings and consumer debt, but a new survey asserts that tightwads outnumber spendthrifts 3 to 2.This part may be no surprise: Me...
Monday, Mar 17, 2008, 09:52 MST
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...I was hiding from the knock-you-over wind gusts this weekend when I came across an interesting commentary in Ode magazine. In it, author Tim McGill argues that kids and their activities are so control...
Monday, Mar 17, 2008, 08:42 MST
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...If you find yourself switching to glass baby bottles, you're not alone. Babies "R" Us has reported a five-fold increase in the sales of these bottles.The shift is comin...
Friday, Mar 14, 2008, 09:54 MST
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...I remember the days when t-shirts were common suggesting that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. The same, though, apparently isn't true for their children.A review of studies on fam...
Thursday, Mar 13, 2008, 08:47 MST
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...I'm ba-a-ack! After covering state government for more than seven years, and then health for about 10 years, I took a year off for rest and recreation (and reading). I rejoined the working world t...
Thursday, Mar 13, 2008, 08:17 MST
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...Jackie Jadrnak is on hiatus....
Wednesday, Mar 14, 2007, 03:15 MST
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