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The property-tax exemption for senior citizens is back after a three-year absence. Lawmakers elim... Budget fine-tuning begins

The property-tax exemption for senior citizens is back after a three-year absence. Lawmakers eliminated the exemption when hard economic times hit the state and reduced revenues.

The state expects to spend $64.6 million on the exemption.

Lawmakers approved $25 million that will be spread among all state universities and colleges to catch up on enrollment increases that had not been ...

Sheila Jeffreys, associate professor of political science at the University of Melbourne, is auth... Body modification as self-

Sheila Jeffreys, associate professor of political science at the University of Melbourne, is author of Unpacking Queer Politics (Polity 2003). Her most recent book addresses these themes in detail: Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West (Routledge, 2005).

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In fertility treatment, scientists are working on making sperm and eggs from skin cells in a proc... Miracle cures: expensive p

In fertility treatment, scientists are working on making sperm and eggs from skin cells in a process known as haploidisation. If successful, it could bring hope to the one in six infertile couples who are unable to produce their own genetic offspring.

The new drug for breast cancer, Herceptin, is a harbinger of drug developments to come. It is one of a new class of cancer drugs that some ...

Take heart, fellow sufferers. If winter potholes have turned the once-smooth ride of your late-mo... Beat-up roads, highways ea

Take heart, fellow sufferers. If winter potholes have turned the once-smooth ride of your late-model, four-wheel navigational tool into the creaks and groans of an old-fashioned, top-loading clothes washer, help is finally on the way.

As decreed in Trenton last week, the transportation gods are dispatching 400 asphalt surgeons and nine gas-powered "hit-man" machines -- called pothole kill...

A disorder in which pigment cells are destroyed and replaced with white patches. Treated with cor... Special care a must for da

A disorder in which pigment cells are destroyed and replaced with white patches. Treated with cortisone creams, intense pulsed laser treatments or skin grafting.

Causes round, light patches of scaly skin, most often in children, on the face and upper arms. Topical medications may help.

. Brown or black raised dark spots seen almost exclusively in African Americans, mostly on women'...