Science news articles about 'dozen states'

... made in reducing cigarette smoking in the United States, there still is much work to do," said Giovino ... private insurance. But in 2006, Medicaid programs in a dozen states still did not provide coverage ...

There is a movement in more than a dozen states to outlaw a crucial element of health care reform: the requirement that everyone be insured or pay a penalty.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hospitals in about a dozen states are testing whether some simple steps, such as arm-strengthening exercises, could reduce the risk of one of breast cancer's troubling legacies ...

... high school. California, like the other two-dozen states with exit exams, spends millions ... academic achievement (as measured by their scores on another state standardized test given in 11th grade ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the ...

... ,100 gallons of water from farm to fuel pump, depending on the regional irrigation practice in growing corn. However, a dozen states in the Corn Belt consume less than 100 gallons of ...

... 2005-2007 dry spell in the southeastern United States destroyed billions of dollars of crops, drained ... and sparked legal wars among a half-dozen states -but the havoc came not from exceptional dryness ...