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Report Details How Online Americans Change Their Internet Use Over Time.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: unknown WASHINGTON, Mar. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Pew Internet & American Life Project will release a report on Sunday showing how Internet users get more serious in their online activities as they gain more experience with Internet tools. The report will be posted at ...
Environmental, Marine Issues on Agenda as Ocean Studies Board Meets at Harbor Branch; Global Climate Change, Everglades Restoration Among Topics Of Discussion.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution FORT PIERCE, Fla., March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than 40 prominent scientists from all over the U.S. will discuss everything from abrupt changes in the world's climate to how humans are threatening the survival of many of the ...
Study Reveals Differences in Patients' Response to Ritalin; Findings May Explain Variation in Doses Needed to Treat Attention/Hyperactivity Disorder.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new brain-imaging study offers insight into why individual patients respond differently to standard doses of Ritalin, a drug used to treat millions of children with Attention Deficit ...
Food Safety Conference Favours European-Wide Cooperation and Rapid Alert System for Consumer Protection.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization WASHINGTON, March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The first Pan-European Food Safety Conference has called upon Central and Eastern European countries on Feb. 28 to join a Rapid Alert System for Food Products, already operational ...
'Community Colleges and Low-Income Populations': Washington, D.C., Meeting to Discuss Policy, Research, and Impact.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: Jobs for the Future WASHINGTON, March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Community colleges have great potential to be the lead local institution for helping low-income individuals obtain credentials and skills they need to advance to further education and better careers. At the ...
National Parent Information Network Resource Guide Deals With Violence Prevention From Birth to 18.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill., March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Bullies, video carnage, uncaring parents, access to guns. All have been pegged as a major cause - even the only cause - of violence among children and youth. Parents call the ...
Bankruptcy Law Expert Warns Reform Bills Now Before Congress Would Allow Enron-Type 'Off-Book' Deals.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill., March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- One way to test Congress' resolve in resisting the blandishments of special interest money is to see how a conference committee handles the bankruptcy bills now before it, a University ...
Decline of Union Membership and Power Has Led to Rise in Lawsuits, Says University of Illinois Expert.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill., March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Will Brooks Brothers suits and hushed courtroom hearings replace the traditional bargaining table and raucous picket line? According to a University of Illinois expert, the ...
University of Illinois Expert Devises Beam-Column Design Method Now Part of Steel-Construction 'Bible'.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill., March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's not like he didn't know it was coming. Still, when University of Illinois architecture professor Abbas Aminmansour found the big blue book in his campus mailbox recently, he could ...
Cancer Patients' Emotional Needs Often Undetected by Oncologists.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: Center for the Advancement of Health WASHINGTON, March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Oncologists often are more attuned to their patients' requests for information about cancer and cancer treatment than they are to requests for emotional support, says new research published in ...
Johns Hopkins Launches Comprehensive, Multilingual Digestive Diseases Web Resource.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Patients and physicians with questions about digestive diseases can turn to the newly launched Johns Hopkins Gastroenterology and Hepatology Resource Center, www.hopkins-gi.org, for answers. ...
Inner Moons Create Glowing Aurora in Jupiter's Atmosphere.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: Boston University BOSTON, March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- New observations of Jupiter conducted by Boston University Professor of Astronomy John T. Clarke and an international team of colleagues have produced a new understanding of the generation, structure, and dynamics ...
Study Reveals Wide Gaps Among States in Child Poverty and Children's Well-Being; Longest Post-War Economic Boom Failed to Help Most Poor Children.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: Communications Consortium WASHINGTON, March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Children at Risk: State Trends 1990-2000, is the first analysis of conditions affecting the nation's children based on new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and ...
Black Legislators More Likely Than Others to Vote Pro-Environment.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Black legislators will play an increasingly important role in shaping and deciding the fate of national environmental policy, according to a University of Michigan study that examines, for the first ...
Odyssey Spacecraft's Neutron Spectrometer Maps Water-Ice on Mars.
Mar 01, 2002 ... Byline: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists today unveiled maps that detail the location of hydrogen, that may indicate water-ice, just below Mars' surface. The maps are based on data from a neutron spectrometer built at the ...
Getting Serious Online: Americans Increasingly Use Internet to Conduct Research for Their Jobs, Make Transactions and Share Worries, Seek Advice Through emails.
Mar 03, 2002 ... Byline: Pew Internet & American Life Project WASHINGTON, Mar. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- As Americans gain experience online, they use the Internet more for their jobs, to make more online purchases and carry out other financial transactions, and to write emails with more ...
U.S. Policy and Madagascar's Elections: Ignoring Popular Democracy in Africa?
Mar 04, 2002 ... Byline: Ad Hoc Group for Democracy in Madagascar ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The international press is now beginning to pick up on a drama that has been unfolding in Madagascar over the past months. In December 2001, incumbent President Didier ...
California Institutions Unveil First Optical Network Linking High-Resolution Visualization Centers for Earth, Ocean Sciences and Homeland Security; Visualization Center Dedicated at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Mar 04, 2002 ... Byline: University of California, San Diego SAN DIEGO, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two leading California universities, a California Institute for Science and Innovation, and four California-based companies today unveiled the world's first visualization complex dedicated to ...
Color Science Cuts through Time -- Art Conservation to Benefit From New Imaging Technology; RIT Collaborates With National Gallery of Art and Museum of Modern Art.
Mar 04, 2002 ... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Has time flattened Van Gogh's palette? Were his blue backgrounds once purple and his white roses, red? An imaging system that can showcase the original condition of a painting -- ...
Saudi Peace Proposal Is Public Relations Move to Raise Country's Image in American Eyes, Says Mideast Expert.
Mar 04, 2002 ... Byline: University of Vermont BURLINGTON, Vt., March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new Saudi Arabian peace proposal has more to do with raising the country's image in American eyes than a sincere effort to end violence in Israel and Palestine, says Gregory Gause, director of the ...
New Technology May Benefit Health Care, Bioterror Defense: Rapid DNA Sequencing Promises Quicker Identification of Genetic Information.
Mar 04, 2002 ... Byline: University of Houston HOUSTON, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- What took hundreds of researchers working together for nearly 10 years to complete soon may be accomplished in less than a day, according to University of Houston researchers who have filed a patent on a new ...
Association for Computing Machinery Honors Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics; Research Director Emphasized Role of Computer Science in Scientific Progress.
Mar 04, 2002 ... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, Mar. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy for her research contributions in image processing, artificial intelligence, medical imaging and machine perception ....
Researchers From Saint Joseph's University to Participate in National Study of Life Course Trajectories of Young Adults.
Mar 04, 2002 ... Byline: Saint Joseph's University PHILADELPHIA, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- It isn't often that researchers consider the development of adults over the development of children. However, researchers from Saint Joseph's University's Institute for Violence Research and Prevention ...
President of Mexico Vicente Fox to Address Notre Dame Graduates.
Mar 04, 2002 ... Byline: University of Notre Dame SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- President of Mexico Vicente Fox will be the principal speaker and the recipient of an honorary doctor of laws degree at the University of Notre Dame's 157th Commencement exercises May 19 (Sunday) ....
'Navigating Failure': Book, Course by Duke Professor Shed Light on History of Bankruptcy.
Mar 04, 2002 ... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The economic backslide that the United States has experienced in recent years has humbled the brash, information-age financial theorists who at one time asserted "the old rules don't apply." The ...
Top Ten Donors List for California Propositions Debuts Online at www.calvoter.org; $19.7 Million Raised for and Against California Propositions Through Feb. 2.
Mar 04, 2002 ... Byline: California Voter Foundation DAVIS, Calif., March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research compiled by the California Voter Foundation shows that campaigns for and against the six propositions on tomorrow's primary election ballot raised nearly $20 million through February 16th, ...
Hydrogen Engine Research Grant Awarded to UC Riverside College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology.
Mar 04, 2002 ... Byline: University of California, Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif., March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new approach to the use of hydrogen to fuel motor vehicles will be undertaken by engineers at the University of California, Riverside who are seeking to develop one of the world's ...
States With Higher Proportions of Black Citizens More Likely to Have Death Penalty, Study Finds.
Mar 05, 2002 ... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- States with larger proportions of African Americans are more likely to have the death penalty on the books than states with smaller black populations, according to a new study. The results ...
Understanding Mothers Who Kill Their Children: Wright State University Professor's Book Explains Why.
Mar 05, 2002 ... Byline: Wright State University DAYTON, Ohio, March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- While the nation's eyes are focused on Andrea Yates and the outcome of her Houston trial for drowning her five children, other mothers are killing their children. "Statistically, our data ...
Most Local Public Health Agencies Making Significant Progress on Post-September 11 Emergency Response Plans; Survey Finds Over 80 Percent of Local Public Health Agencies Have Either Completed or Almost Completed Comprehensive Response Plans.
Mar 05, 2002 ... Byline: Burness Communications WASHINGTON, March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Several months since September 11, one-fourth (26 percent) of local public health agencies (LPHAs) have a comprehensive, written emergency response plan completed and in place and over half (55 percent) ...
Pregnant Minority Women Have High Rates of Depression, Says Study.
Mar 05, 2002 ... Byline: Center for the Advancement of Health WASHINGTON, March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than half of pregnant blacks and Hispanics may be depressed, according to a new study that also suggests that stressful life events and poverty may be contribute to the relatively high ...
National Fundraising Associations Back Charitable Giving Legislation in 'CARE' Act, S. 1924 Now Before U.S. Senate; Passage of Tax Measures Vital in Encouraging Donations.
Mar 05, 2002 ... Byline: Council for Advancement & Support of Education WASHINGTON, March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The leaders of the four major fundraising associations, on behalf of their combined membership of 82,000 fundraisers and gift planners, have called for passage of charitable giving ...
Path to Chronic Transplant Rejection: How Donor Organs Unwittingly Give Themselves Up to Immune System.
Mar 05, 2002 ... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Otherwise innocuous cells within donated tissue may be responsible for triggering the chronic rejection of transplanted organs, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania ...
Gulf War Illness Brain Imaging Study Receives $5 Million Grant.
Mar 05, 2002 ... Byline: University of California, San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Even as the US military fights a war against terrorism, medical researchers are still puzzling over lingering illnesses that plague veterans of the Persian Gulf War. A new study begun ...
University of Michigan to Present Research on Children's Oral Health at International Association for Dental Research Meeting.
Mar 05, 2002 ... Byline: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Family doctors' fluoride savvy, effects of childhood cavities on quality of life are among topics University of Michigan researchers will discuss at national meeting. University of ...
UCSF Study Shows Breast Cancer Screening Programs That Interpret the Most Mammograms Get the Most Precise Results.
Mar 05, 2002 ... Byline: University of California, San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Accurate diagnoses are directly related to the number of mammograms interpreted by a physician, according to a University of California, San Francisco study published in the March 6 ...
NASA Study Links El Nino and Southern Ocean Changes.
Mar 05, 2002 ... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA researchers have found strong relationships between El Nino episodes and changes in climate and sea ice cover around Antarctica. Identifying these relationships is important because ...
Bush-Imposed Steel Tariffs Will Hurt All Americans, Says Trade Expert.
Mar 05, 2002 ... Byline: Washington University, St. Louis ST. LOUIS, March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- In an effort to protect domestic steel industries, President Bush today announced the United States would begin assessing punishing tariffs of up to 30 percent on foreign steel imports. Although ...
Chimpanzee Virus May Be Key to Better Vaccines, Study Shows.
Mar 05, 2002 ... Byline: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Immunologists know that human adenoviruses, a common cause of respiratory-tract infections in people, can be retooled in the laboratory to serve as effective vaccines against an array of viral diseases ....
The Virtue Matrix: Calculating the Return on Corporate Responsibility.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: Rotman School of Management TORONTO, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Executives who want to make their organizations better corporate citizens face many obstacles: If they undertake only costly initiatives that their rivals don't embrace, they risk eroding their company's ...
University of Arkansas Social Work Research Director Targets Poverty, Policy.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: University of Arkansas FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new director at the University of Arkansas School of Social Work Research Center plans to bring researchers, caseworkers, policy makers and the public together to combat poverty in the state of ...
Solar Radio Bursts Can Disrupt Wireless Cell Communications Several Times Per Year.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: American Geophysical Union WASHINGTON, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Bursts of energy from the Sun on microwave radio frequencies can disrupt wireless cell communications several times a year, according to scientists who have studied records covering 40 years of such ...
Civil Rights Community Opposition to Pickering Confirmation Intensifies; Leaders From Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas Ready to Comment on Pickering Confirmation.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights WASHINGTON, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the nation's oldest and broadest civil rights coalition, opposes the nomination of Southern District of Mississippi Judge Charles Pickering ...
University of Washington Center to Build On, Develop Genetic and Protein Technology to Fight Deadly Microbial Pathogens.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: University of Washington Health Sciences SEATTLE, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Washington School of Medicine has established the Keck Center for Functional, Structural, and Chemical Genomics of Microbial Pathogens. The Keck Center will use ...
Chemical Attraction Needed to Launch Immune Attack, Researchers Find.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: University of California, San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team led by University of California, San Francisco scientists has determined how the weapons producers of the immune system -- the B cells that make antibodies -- find the T cells ...
Nausea Sometimes A Red Flag for Anxiety and Depression.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: Center for the Advancement of Health WASHINGTON, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- People who experience nausea may be suffering from anxiety or depression, possible causes that should be investigated before aggressive treatments are begun for gastrointestinal disorders, ...
Stanford University School of Medicine's E-Pelvis Teaching Tool Builds Skills in Difficult-to-Learn Procedure.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: Stanford University Medical Center STANFORD, Calif., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ask the average woman to compile a list of life's unpleasantries and chances are, pelvic exams will rank close to the top. And women aren't alone with that sentiment - the procedure isn't ...
Black Men at High Risk of HIV/AIDS Infection Are Focus of $2.2 Million University of Michigan Study.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- HIV/AIDS rates have increased dramatically among drug dependent Black men. A $2.2 million study by the University of Michigan School of Social Work hopes to evaluate the effectiveness of culturally ...
Stanford University's New Antigen Microarrays Open Window to Better Disease Screening.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: Stanford University Medical Center STANFORD, Calif., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Your immune system normally protects against disease, but in some cases - such as with rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and type-I diabetes - the immune system actually attacks your body ....
'Non-Surgical Lumpectomy' Technique Under Investigation at UC Davis Cancer Center.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: Univ. of California, Davis, Medical Center SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- An experimental technique that destroys breast cancer cells without surgery is under evaluation at UC Davis Cancer Center. Instead of cutting out a tumor, the experimental ...
Immigrants in Nation's Two Largest Cities Report Extensive Unmet Food Needs; Greatest Hardship Among Those Who Speak Limited English.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: The Urban Institute WASHINGTON, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite their strong attachment to the labor force, many immigrants in Los Angeles County and New York City are experiencing substantial unmet need for health care, food assistance, and other social services ....
Prototype Detector Could Identify Anthrax Quickly -- New Technique Requires Only a Few Minutes of FAME.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Some deadly things don't deserve 15 minutes of FAME, let alone several hours. A prototype handheld detector under development at Sandia National Laboratories can identify the fatty ...
Protein Identified That May Allow Cancer Cell to Fuel Its Own Growth.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators have identified a new secreted protein and its receptors that appear to give a cancer cell the ability to fuel its own growth and present a ...
UC Irvine Study Finds Intestinal Growth-Inducing Chemical Uses Receptor Linked to Wound Healing; Find May Lead to New Drugs to Fight Colon, Stomach Cancers.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: AScribe Internal IRVINE, Calif., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- An intestinal chemical triggers cell growth -- helping to heal ulcers but also to promote cancer -- by stimulating a receptor on intestinal cells, a University of California, Irvine College of Medicine and VA ...
Researchers Discover Adult Stem Cells in Blood Capable of Generating Organ Tissue.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have shown that human adult stem cells circulating in the blood are capable of differentiating into various organ systems, as reported ...
Boston University Study Faults Implementation of California Proposition: State's Bilingual Education Did Not End With Passage of Prop. 227.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: Boston University BOSTON, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new report by Boston University Professor Christine Rossell claims the implementation of the California state law voters passed to transform bilingual education programs has been undermined and "rewritten" by the ...
United Nations Unveils Approach to Tracking Nonprofits Globally; Handbook Will Show Economic Role of Voluntary, Nonprofit Sector.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: Johns Hopkins University NEW YORK, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The United Nations announced at this week's meeting of the Statistical Commission in New York a plan to implement a new approach to treating nonprofit organizations in national economic statistics around ...
UCLA Scientists, Colleagues Substantiate Biological Origin of Earliest Fossils.
Mar 06, 2002 ... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf and colleagues have substantiated the biological origin of the earliest known cellular fossils, which are 3.5 billion years old. The research is published in the March 7 issue of the ...
University of Arkansas to Host Social Psychology Symposium on Resistance and Persuasion.
Mar 07, 2002 ... Byline: University of Arkansas FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., March 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- This April, nationally renowned scholars in the field of social psychology will convene at the University of Arkansas to participate in a symposium that will explore the nature of persuasion as well ...
FAO Regional Conference for Near East Opens Saturday in Tehran; Agriculture Ministers and Experts Will Pave the Way for World Food Summit: five years later Scheduled for 10-13 June 2002 in Rome.
Mar 07, 2002 ... Byline: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization TEHRAN, Iran, March 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) opens its 26th Regional Conference for the Near East next Saturday at Azadi Grand Hotel in Tehran. Agriculture, forestry and ...
American Medical Association Poll Finds Parents Outraged by Spring Break Promotions; Parents Very Concerned About High-Risk Drinking; 73 Percent Agree That Alcohol Producers Should End Their Association With Spring Break.
Mar 07, 2002 ... Byline: Fenton Communications West CHICAGO, March 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- All-you-can-drink specials, booze cruises, "endless nights of music, partying, sex and anything but textbooks" may be the perfect lure to college students planning their spring break, but a poll released ...
Entertainment in Los Angeles Economy Is Focus of Next UCLA Anderson Forecast Conference; Mayor Jim Hahn to Speak.
Mar 07, 2002 ... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, March 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- According to economists with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, the most distressing blows to the Southern California economy last year did not result from the watershed Sept. 11 attacks, but hit after 12 percent of jobs in the ...
UCLA's Amerasia Journal Publishes Special Post-Sept. 11 Issue on War, Justice and Peace.
Mar 07, 2002 ... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, March 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A special 350-page issue of UCLA's Amerasia Journal published in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and U.S. retaliation continues Amerasia's mission to provide the most up-to-date and provocative material in the ...
Rocky Mountain Institute Study Shows Fuel Cells Can Be Cost Effective for Electric Power Generation.
Mar 07, 2002 ... Byline: unknown SNOWMASS, Colo., March 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- With today's concern about national security, the generation and distribution of electrical energy is recognized as one of America's most vulnerable areas. But electricity generation doesn't have to be a security ...
Santa Clara University Law Review Brings European Death Penalty Opponents to Symposium; Former 'First Lady' of France Is Keynote Speaker.
Mar 07, 2002 ... Byline: Santa Clara University SANTA CLARA, March 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Advocates of new plans in Europe to expand the Council of Europe's ban on the death penalty to include crimes in time of war will be at the Santa Clara University School of Law on Friday, March 15. Keynote ...