Report: States With Legal Raw Milk Sales See Higher Rate of Disease

Outbreaks due to raw milk were 150 times greater from 1993 to 2006.

Cities Give Google Cloud-Based Email Mixed Reviews

Some cities have switched to the cloud with ease, but Los Angeles, for example, had to abandon it for law enforcement because of outdated security policies.

High Court To Take New Look at Affirmative Action

The Supreme Court will once again confront the issue of race in university admissions in a case brought by a white student denied a spot at the flagship campus of the University of Texas.

School-Based Health Centers Reap Benefits

Studies have found that SBHCs improve students’ health-care access and school success. Now, the Obama administration is helping more states finance them.

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