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<p>SACRAMENTO (AP) - Because higher learning standards have made kindergarten more complicated than naps and playtime, Assemblywoman Sharon Runner has proposed delaying the time when some younger five-year-olds will be able to enter school.</p> <p>But the proposal by the Republican from Lancaster has left the realm of policy discussions and rammed into the ongoing budget battle.</p>

"Term Limits--To Reduce Congressional Crime" Posted by Doc Farmer Saturday, May 10, 2003 Years ago, there used to be a concept known as ''Jobs for Life.'' It was where a person would be hired at the age of 18, and work at the same firm for 40 or 50 years before either retiring or dropping dead at the office. It was job security. And it didn't matter how badly you did your job, you'd have to practically burn down the building to get fired--that, or say the wrong thing at the office Christmas party. But that was long, long ago....

Foetuses may develop consciousness long before the legal age limit for abortions, one of Britain's leading brain scientists has said. Baroness Greenfield, a professor of neurology at Oxford University and the director of the Royal Institution, said there was evidence to suggest the conscious mind could develop before 24 weeks, the upper age where terminations are permitted. Although she fell short of calling for changes in the abortion laws, she urged doctors and society to be cautious when assuming unborn babies lacked consciousness. "Is the foetus conscious? The answer is yes, but up to a point," she said. "Given that...

<p>Just over a year ago, a California prison inmate received a heart transplant while incarcerated -- an event believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.</p> <p>With thousands of people waiting for organs, the operation and follow-up care -- costing more than $1 million -- generated outrage.</p>

June 24, 2002 Peering Over Einstein's Shoulders Seeking still more complete descriptions of the workings of spacetime, scientists are testing the boundaries of the special theory of relativity By JR Minkel After a century, Einstein's special theory of relativity, which describes the motion of particles moving at close to the speed of light, has held up remarkably well. But as scientists probe the edges of the current knowledge of physics with new tests, they may find effects that require modifications on the venerable theory. Several current theories, designed to encompass the behavior of black holes, the big bang and the...