One of the longest running questions that has been regularly included in U.S. national public opinion polls is “Are you in favor of the death penalty for persons convicted of murder?” Because the death penalty is governed by state laws rather than federal laws, it is of special interest to know how public opinion varies by state, and how it has changed over time within each state. In this paper...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations that affect the proper function of cilia. Recently, deletion of DNA polymerase lambda (Poll) in mice produced a phenotype characteristic of PCD (Kobayashi et al., 2002, Mol. Cell. Biol. 22:2769-2776). Because it is unclear how a mutation in a DNA polymerase would result in a specific defect in axonemes, the t...

+ Author Affiliations 1. Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199; and 2. Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92617 Marijuana use has increased over the past 20 y in the United States, and current trends suggest it may continue to rise. Recent polls in the United States suggest that population acceptance is at an all-time high: 56% s...

On February 29, 2004, the college football Bowl Championship Series (BCS) announced a proposal to add a fifth game to the “BCS bowls” to improve access for mid-major teams ordinarily denied invitations to these lucrative postseason games. Although still subject to final approval, this agreement is expected to be instituted with the new BCS contract just prior to the 2006 season. There aren’t to...