Voters in several states will also decide ballot measures on a number of issues, including same-sex marriage, medical marijuana and legalized gambling.
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As a result of such measures, and of closer co-operation between police and prosecutors, the number of sex workers who report attacks to the police has shot up, and so have convictions.
Still, with White House and high-profile Republican support, legal and legislative victories in a number of states and polls that show an increasing number of Americans support same sex-marriage, proponents feel that the winds of history are with them.
They worked out the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger for each child, and compared it with those of 34 of the children's healthy siblings, 88 of their fathers, 88 of their mothers, and a number of unrelated controls that were matched for sexand age.