A cautionary not for those who predict the future, and those who always believe all the projections. We're not running out of phone numbers in Indiana nearly as quickly as once predicted:
Cell phones caused a big need for more numbers in the 1990s, and the Internet caused some families to add second lines for modems.
The smoking-ban movement has certainly gained momentum in Indiana:
In the last 13 months, partial or comprehensive bans on smoking have been approved in Jeffersonville and 14 other Indiana communities.
I guess I've never thought much about how egailtarian organized gambling is:
All that makes Northwest Indiana a favored destination for a broad range of casino players. Horseshoe, with its $10,000 maximum bets at blackjack and $100,000 maximums at baccarat, and Resorts with $50,000 at baccarat get their share of the very wealthy, including sports stars and Asian businessmen on Chicago trips who otherwise might be found at the tables in Las Vegas or Macau.
Congratulations, Hoosier motorcycle riders. You no longer have to stop at the state line if you want your brains bashed in:
With hundreds of motorcycle riders outside the Capitol, the Michigan state House today passed a controversial repeal of a mandate for riders to wear helmets.
The legislation passed by a 66-37 vote and is awaiting the signature of Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
Another piece of evidence that the vehicle crash ID mixup in Indiana had nothing to do with the elected-cornoner system -- a similar mixup in 2004 in Michigan, which has a medical-examiner system. And there, they're looking in the right direction for improvement, changing state law:
Right Wing News, a blog that, as you might expect, worries about Republicans losing the White House, rates the 10 most dangerous Democrats, based on their electability. Evan Bayh comes in third, behind Mark Warner and Bill Richardson, just ahead of Hillary Clinton and Al Gore and way ahead of John Kerry and John Edwards. But the assessment is based on the belief that Bayh is a "moderate senator," so take it for what it's worth.
Oh, please. If you just get mad, you have a bad temper. But if you get mad -- unreasonably so -- often enough, you can have Intermittent Explosive Disorder, your very own disease:
Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that what this patron of the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library says is true:
They needed a study for this?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenage girls commonly have sex not because they want to, but because they feel pressured into it - and the result may be a higher risk of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, a new study suggests.
Maryland has a fully professional medical-examiner system, so of course a body could never be misidentified there:
A child who died in a car crash was misidentified as his younger brother, a mistake that his relatives discovered a week after the accident, state police said Monday.
Troopers confirmed that the boy who died in the May 29 crash was 7-year-old Christian Marshall and not his 4-year-old brother, Justin.
