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Editor's note
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been under a lot of fire lately – from inside and outside the administration. Last week, he announced that he’d like to revive D.A.R.E., the controversial (and much maligned) drug abuse prevention program from the ‘80s and ‘90s. His enthusiasm for the infamously ineffective D.A.R.E. was met with considerable skepticism. However, as Rutgers University-Newark’s Paul Boxer explains, the new D.A.R.E. is quite a bit different from – and more likely to succeed than – its predecessor.
More broadly, however, Sessions’ interest in continuing the nearly 50 year war on drugs and in enforcing harsh mandatory minimum sentences may not be as effective. Georgia State criminologist Dean Dabney argues that such a system rewards heavy-handed policing in which trust and and cooperation with the community are lost.
Did you know that inflammation has important roles during healthy pregnancy – even though it’s also a threat to maintaining a pregnancy? Yale’s Oliver Griffith explains how his team investigated this medical paradox in marsupials, to gain an evolutionary perspective on what’s going on. What they learned from opossums has implications for women undergoing IVF.
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Has D.A.R.E. moved beyond the “just say no” days of the ‘80’s and '90’s?
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Paul Boxer, Rutgers University Newark
Jeff Sessions was met with considerable skepticism when he announced his desire to revive D.A.R.E. But it turns out that the current program is nothing like the ineffective D.A.R.E. of the '80's and '90's.
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Science + Technology
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Oliver Griffith, Yale University
A new evolutionary perspective on what's been a medical paradox: Why does the body use inflammation to regulate aspects of pregnancy when inflammation is also a big threat to pregnancy?
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Luis Ceze, University of Washington; Karin Strauss, University of Washington
Researchers who hold the world record for storing and retrieving data in DNA explain how the building blocks of life can be used to hold digital information as well.
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Economy + Business
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Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
Global travelers are being increasingly asked if they want to pay for local purchases in terms of their home country currency. Here's why you should resist the strong temptation to do so.
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Robert A. Blecker, American University
The administration's objectives for NAFTA negotiations with Canada and Mexico, set to begin in August, will do little to help American workers, let alone create shared prosperity across the continent.
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From our international editions
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Chris Barratt, University of Dundee
If this trend continues, most men will be infertile by 2060.
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Michael Wheeler, University of Western Australia; Daniel Green, University of Western Australia; David Dunstan, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute; Paul Gardiner, The University of Queensland
The brain is a glucose-hungry organ. If this energy supply is disrupted, it can impair and even damage brain cells.
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Dağhan Irak, Université de Strasbourg
In Turkey, Twitter has become a dangerous platform, with some seven people detained daily for posting anti-government messages.
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Iván Farías Pelcastre, University of Oxford; Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham
The Trump administration has outlined its plans to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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