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College students surveyed on guns on campus
HUNTSVILLE — Students from two university campuses in Texas and Washington recently were surveyed on allowing concealed handguns on campus.
According to research led by Dr. Jeffrey Bouffard at Sam Houston State University’s College of Criminal Ju…
Scientists find America's oldest image of a deity
Archaeologists have found a 4,000-year-old gourd fragment that bears an archaic image of the Staff God ? the principal deity in South America during thousands of years. “Like the cross, the Staff God is a clearly recognizable religious icon,” says Jonathan Haas, MacArthur curator of North American anthropology at The Field Museum. “This appears to be the oldest identifiable religious icon found in the Americas. It indicates that organized religion began in the Andes more than 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.”
Positive Response to Epilepsy Medication Does Not Ensure Good Prognosis
Contrary to common belief, early successful treatment and control of epileptic seizures with appropriate medications does not necessarily guarantee that seizures will always be controlled by those medications in the future, according to a study published in the January 28 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.