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A paper was published this week from the Gregoire Courtine lab in Switzerland. Courtine, who we have discussed here in recent months, studies activity and its role in recovery. Much of Courtine’s science was shaped by his years as a graduate student under Reggie Edgerton at UCLA. Edgerton’s lab is one of seven in the…

Since 1999, Ann Curcio, vocational specialist with the Bridgeport Board of Education, has changed lives through her work with the most challenged special-needs students in the city’s school system. Bernadine Venditto, president of Junior Achievement of Western Connecticut, shared this story of how Ann has recognized the dire need for a job skills training program…

Three days into the government shutdown, there is no clear signal that the political impasse will be broken imminently. Meanwhile, many public services are unavailable – including inspections at laboratories, puppy mills and other regulated facilities – and nearly a million federal employees are furloughed. Having one’s livelihood ensnared in a battle between the two…

As the clock struck midnight in Washington earlier this week, the bitterly divided Congress officially failed to pass a budget and the United States government shut down. As a result of this partisan, political gamesmanship of a few, millions of Americans will feel the pain. Here are three things to know about the government shutdown…

When the clock struck midnight earlier this week, much of the federal government was expected to shut its doors, and the impact on the economy is expected to be immediate. The most conservative estimates from the first government shutdown in 1981 put the cost of a the work stoppage at $8.2 million per day, or…

Waiting lists for food aid have been growing for years—now almost 15 percent of the nation’s elderly don’t have enough to eat. Eva Perdue, her legs wrapped in a black- and-white-checked blanket, a bright red kerchief tied in her hair, sits on a couch in her small house near downtown Atlanta that Habitat for Humanity…

The Federal government shutdown has been the talk of the town all week. And we all want to know: how will this impact our guests? Believe it or not, there actually is some good news: the D.C. Government found a way to stay open, and Miriam’s Kitchen is incredibly grateful that they did. Through the…

By Nusrat Choudhury, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project at 10:21am Over the last three years, the FBI has dramatically expanded its No-Fly List of suspected terrorists, including blacklisting innocent Americans who present no threat to security. The Americans we represent in Latif v. Holder, the ACLU’s challenge to the government’s No-Fly List procedures, provide…

It is now only a matter of weeks, or days perhaps, before Herman Wallace dies of the liver cancer that is ravaging his body. He will likely die in prison, at age 72, without proper medical treatment, after spending nearly four decades in a 6′ by 9′ cell. He was placed in solitary confinement after…

I grew up in the shadow of Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York. As a boy, I would walk by Sing Sing and hear the inmates talking, a stark and sobering reminder of the dashed dreams of the many men I knew growing up who ended up impoverished, incarcerated or killed. Young men like…

New Survey Outlines Funding Deficiency in Brain and Eye Disease Research BrightFocus Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds research worldwide to save sight and mind, today released the results of a survey of more than 170 leading biomedical scientists that explores the most significant barriers to progress in ending brain and eye diseases.  The survey…