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Sandra Day O'Connor, Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and Former Telecommunications Executive Raymond Smith Join Rockefeller Foundation Board of Trustees.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Rockefeller Foundation NEW YORK, April 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Rockefeller Foundation today announced the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Raymond...

Vanderbilt University Experts Available for Comment on Immigration Debate.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following Vanderbilt University experts are available for comment. - - - - IMMIGRATION POLICIES AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION Robert Barsky, editor...

Tax Evasion, Avoidance Grow, Fueled by Weakened IRS Enforcement; Study Maps Causes, Cures for $353 Billion in Uncollected Taxes; April 6 Panel Discussion to Explore IRS Enforcement Challenges.(Discussion)
April 5, 2006... Byline: Economic Policy Institute WASHINGTON, April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- On Thursday, April 6, a new Economic Policy Institute study will deliver some news that most people who are finishing up their income tax filings would rather not...

Lewis & Clark Law School Crime Victim Law Conference Focuses on 'the Power of One'; June 16 & 17.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Lewis & Clark College PORTLAND, Ore., April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Lewis & Clark Law School's National Crime Victim Law Institute sponsors its fifth conference exclusively for civil rights lawyers who defend the rights of crime...

California Officials to Face Questions From Students on Teens, Tougher Driving laws -- Thursday, April 6.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Calif. State University, Sacramento SACRAMENTO, April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ten top high school students from across California will become reporters for a day as they conduct a press conference with state officials on teens and...

Tax Evasion & Avoidance Grow, Fueled by Weakened IRS Enforcement: Update -- New Location for Washington, D.C., Tax Panel.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Economic Policy Institute WASHINGTON, April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Economic Policy Institute today released the following update. - - - - PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION: Russell Senate Office Building, Room 188 On...

Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police/Rotman School of Management Leadership Program Trains Police Executives.
April 6, 2006... Byline: Rotman School of Management TORONTO, April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A seventh group of police executives will graduate on April 8, 2006, from an MBA-style program at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. Their...

What a Civil Discussion of Immigration Would Really Sound Like -- by Ruth A. Wooden.
April 6, 2006... Byline: Public Agenda NEW YORK, April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is an opinion piece on the national debate on education by Ruth A. Wooden. Wooden is president of Public Agenda, a non-partisan public opinion research organization...

President of NAACP to Speak at Gettysburg College's Commencement May 21.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Gettysburg College GETTYSBURG, Pa., April 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Gettysburg College graduate Bruce Gordon, president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), will...

Equal Pay Day 2006: New Nationwide Collaborative Grassroots Movement to Close Wage Gap Announced.
April 18, 2006... Byline: Communications Consortium WASHINGTON, April 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- In 2006, more than four decades after the passage of the Equal Pay Act, full-time year round working women in the United States according to the 2005 Census Bureau...

Century Foundation Fellow Receives Guggenheim Fellowship; Patrick Radden Keefe Awarded for Research on International Terror Organizations.
April 19, 2006... Byline: The Century Foundation NEW YORK, April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Century Foundation Fellow Patrick Radden Keefe has been honored with the 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship for his research regarding the networks of cross-border criminal...

Books for Understanding Immigration: Scholars Provide Cultural, Legal, Political, Economic Contexts for Current Debate.
April 19, 2006... Byline: Association of American University Presses NEW YORK, April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The issue of immigration reform has brought many thousands of people to the streets and to the communication networks in recent weeks. Debate over...

Restore North Lawndale's Greystones, University of Illinois at Chicago Report Says.
April 20, 2006... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Greystone houses and apartment buildings in the low-income North Lawndale community merit a restoration effort similar to the public-private partnership that...

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Announces 2006 Class of Fellows; Elected Include Scholars, Scientists, Artists, Civic, Corporate, Philanthropic Leaders.
April 24, 2006... Byline: American Academy of Arts & Sciences CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 175 new Fellows and 20 new Foreign Honorary Members. Those elected...

Storm Shelters Could Ease Hurricane Evacuations; Homeowners Outside of Flood Zones Remain Safe from Hurricanes.
April 24, 2006... Byline: Texas Tech University LUBBOCK, Texas, April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- As was seen in Houston preceding Hurricane Rita, evacuations often can put immense strain on traffic corridors, leading to traffic jams and - in the case of...

MIT Method Allows 3-D Study of Cells; Work Could Impact Tissue Engineering.
April 24, 2006... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- MIT bioengineers have devised a new technique that makes it possible to learn more about how cells are organized in tissues and potentially even to regrow cells for repairing...

Global Fund for Women Appoints Abigail Disney, Mu Sochua, Lydia Alpizar Duran to Board of Directors: Social Justice Philanthropist, Former Minister of Women's and Veterans' Affairs of Cambodia and Central American Women's Rights Activist.
April 24, 2006... Byline: Global Fund for Women SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Global Fund for Women, the largest foundation in the world that exclusively funds women's rights groups overseas, announced today the appointment of Abigail...

28 California Counties Fail American Lung Association's Annual State of the Air Clean Air Test; Kern, Riverside Counties Top Bad Air Lists Nationwide; Salinas on Cleanest List; Diesel Trains and Boats Contribute to Dangerous Ozone, Particle Pollution Levels.
April 27, 2006... Byline: American Lung Association OAKLAND, Calif., April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- California cities and counties continue to dominate the list of places with the highest number of days with high air pollution in the American Lung...

More Than 5 Million Americans Are Denied their Right to Vote; New Book Tells Their Stories and the Impact on Democracy in America.
April 27, 2006... Byline: Demos NEW YORK, April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- This Friday, April 28, 2006, marks the publication of a groundbreaking and timely new book, "Conned: How Millions Went to Prison and Lost the Vote" (The New Press; on sale April 28,...