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A study of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans released Monday found that having a gay or lesbian soldier in their unit did not significantly impact the unit's cohesion or its readiness.

In the first ever statistical analysis of whether openly gay service has any impact on military readiness, a new study shows that knowing a gay or lesbian unit member has no bearing on the unit's cohesion.

Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 10:22 p.m. Even after seven years, there's no coping, no closure, and certainly no forgetting the life and tragic death of Linda Franklin, one of 10 victims in the 2002 three-state sniper murder spree.

Hookah pipe smoking has gained a foothold with Florida teens, according to a new University of Florida study, which shows 11 percent of high school students and 4 percent of middle school students have tried it.

Age-related hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder among the elderly. But scientists are still trying to figure out what cellular processes govern or contribute to the loss.

St. Jude Childrena s Research Hospital and the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute have formed a collaboration to provide proton therapy for St.

By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration today has more research to help make its case for allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the armed forces.

New, improved models of human obesity aim to improve understanding of leptina s impact on CNS regulation of metabolism.

With the state's high jobless rate, Florida's real estate outlook is plagued by the most dangerous condition to delay an economic recovery: uncertainty, according to the latest University of Florida survey.

Published: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 11:22 p.m. University of Florida President Bernie Machen was ticketed by Gainesville police Friday night for hitting another car in a downtown parking lot and failing to leave information on the car, police said Saturday.

Published: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 12:22 a.m. Registered sex offender Boyd David Hodges attended the University of Florida about six months before campus police began receiving the complaints that alerted them to his presence and changed the university's admission policies.

Published: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 12:02 a.m. As news reports told of the shooting at Fort Hood Thursday, where an Army psychiatrist - a Muslim of Jordanian descent - killed 12 of his fellow soldiers and a civilian, Layalee Jabbar received a call from her father in Ocala.

Police say lock it or lose it -- $151, that is Teen accused of threatening tree workers with machete 2 get life, no parole, for murder Firefighters get into sanitation business N-J/ David Massey Certified veterinary technician Kaleia Corbin holds Calli, a pit bull terrier, while Dr.

Published: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 1:40 p.m. There's never been a road like it before.

POLICE BEAT Woman injured as semi, scooter collide A 54-year-old woman was hospitalized Friday afternoon with injuries that were not life-threatening after the scooter she was riding collided with a semi truck adjacent to the University of Florida campus, reported the Gainesville Police Department.

Nearly half of students at four-year colleges do it regularly . Rather, it's binge drinking -- downing five or more alcoholic drinks at a sitting.

Cerebral Cortex Advance Access originally published online on March 20, 2009 Cerebral Cortex 2009 19 :2803-2809; doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp052 1 Centro de Tecnologa Biomdica of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain, 2 Centro de Magnetoencefalografa of the Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain, 3 University of ...

Filed under Op-Eds on Tuesday, November 3, 2009. This op-ed appeared Nov. 3 in The Miami Herald.

A former top NASA official was sentenced Friday to three years probation, six months of electronic monitoring and a $2,500 fine for steering contract money to a private client.

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 6:03 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 6:03 p.m. John Prosser opened the restaurant Civilization as a worker-owned cooperative because he said he didn't want the daunting task of running a restaurant and catering company by himself.