Joshua Spivak is a senior fellow at the Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform at Wagner College.

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Eric S. Lander of The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard topped the list of most influential researchers for the second year straight, recording 14 Hot Papers in 2011.

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Badgett, director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Williams Institute scholar Jody L. Herman reported that for 11 states that have some form of legal partnership for same-sex couples, and for which they were able to collect data, on average just over 1% of the couples split each year.

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He discovered a paper in a 2006 issue of the journal Nature co-authored by Bruce Buchholz, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Kirsty L. Spalding of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

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Robert L. Bradley is CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research and author of seven books on energy.

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For research, Mr. Scanlon, co-writers Daniel Gerson and Robert L. Baird, and a team of artists visited Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley.

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"For many patients who would have a favorable response to treatment now, it doesn't make sense to me to put their treatment off, " says Mitchell L. Shiffman, a liver specialist with Bon Secours Health System's Liver Institute of Virginia.

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The findings are "pretty good evidence" that violent video games do indeed cause aggressive behavior, says Dr. L. Rowell Huesmann, director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor.

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