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Military families targeted for high-interest loans, UF professor says

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Payday loan companies — which make high-cost loans to cash-strapped people – target military members and their families, according to a study co-authored by a University of Florida law professor.

Filed under Research, Business, Family, Politics, Law on Tuesday, March 29, 2005.

UF professor: political foes gird for 2000 presidential election repeat

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Democratic and Republican parties that bitterly fought over the 2000 presidential election outcome in Florida are gearing up for a similar confrontation again in November, says a University of Florida researcher and the author of a new book on the subject.

Filed under Research, Politics on Tuesday, August 31, 2004.

Housing segregation persists in many parts of nation, study shows

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Neighborhood integration is necessary to reduce school segregation but Americans continue to remain separated in their neighborhoods a half century after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision, a new nationwide study by the University of Florida finds.

Filed under Research, Politics, Law, Race, Black, Hispanic on Thursday, May 6, 2004.

UF researcher: rise of black mayors ranks with civil rights movement

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The rise of black mayors ranks as important as the civil rights movement in fighting racial discrimination in American society, says a University of Florida researcher and author of a new book on the subject.

Filed under Research, Politics, Race, Black on Wednesday, September 5, 2001.

Major Players In Presidential Election To Be Featured At UF Conference

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Key participants in Florida’s protracted 2000 Presidential election will participate in a University of Florida conference Feb. 26, examining legal, political and media aspects of the contested balloting.

Filed under Research, Politics, Law on Tuesday, February 20, 2001.

UF Professor: New Film Falsely Heightens Tensions In Cuban Missile Crisis

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In depicting the Cuban Missile Crisis, the movie “Thirteen Days” strives to be realistic in portraying the Kennedy brothers, but its dialogue unfairly portrays the military as pushing the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust, says a University of Florida researcher who has written a new book on the confrontation.

Filed under Research, Politics on Wednesday, January 17, 2001.

UF Researcher: Citizen Initiatives May Determine Tight Presidential Race

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Tuesday’s presidential election may not hinge on the candidates at all but instead on a few ballot measures in a handful of states dealing with hot button issues such as vouchers, animal rights and gay marriage, says a University of Florida researcher.

Filed under Research, Politics, Law on Tuesday, October 31, 2000.

UF Expert: Presidential Race Could Forever Change Campaigning

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — While the outcomes of this summer’s political conventions are predictable, the same cannot be said for the campaigns each candidate will wage this fall, says a University of Florida political communications expert.

Filed under Research, Florida, Politics, Law on Friday, August 4, 2000.

UF Study: Controversy Engulfs Reproductive Services At School Clinics

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Conflicts about sex education and reproductive services are creating a cultural divide among communities that have school-based health clinics, a new University of Florida study finds.

Filed under Research, Health, Education, Politics on Tuesday, May 30, 2000.

UF Researcher: Growing Anti-Racist Groups Commemorate John Brown

GAINESVILLE — May 1 would be a national holiday honoring a forgotten martyr against slavery if the rapidly growing anti-racist movement has its way, a new University of Florida study finds.

Filed under Research, Politics, Race, Black on Wednesday, April 28, 1999.