Proponents of gay marriage, who traditionally frame the cause as a matter of equality and civil rights, are increasingly invoking something else: family. And the tactic seems to be working.

In February three state legislatures passed statutes making gay marriage legal, and in each case the appeal to family connections was a central feature.

"We need to ask ourselves: How would it feel to be a child of a gay couple?" asked Washington's Democratic governor, Chris Gregoire, who signed the state's legislation Feb. 13 after having announced her support for it a month earlier. "How can we tell these children that their parents' love is seen as unequal under Washington law?"

A Washington state lawmaker who voted for the bill recalled her own marriage. "I was married for 23 years to the love of my life and he died six years ago," said Republican Rep. Maureen Walsh in a video that went viral. "How could I deny anyone the right to have that incredible bond with another individual in life?"

In New Jersey, 15-year-old Madison Galluccio told state lawmakers debating same-sex marriage what it's like being the adopted daughter of two gay dads.

"A lot of people think that my family is different," she testified before an Assembly committee. "You gave us a civil union. I don't know what that is.... It's very hard for me to explain to my friends. It's very hard that I can't tell them, 'Oh yeah, I have gay dads and they're married just like your parents.' But they're not."

Almost two weeks later, New Jersey lawmakers passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, but it was swiftly vetoed by Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who wants the issue decided by referendum.

In Maryland, where Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley signed its bill into law Thursday, a Republican lawmaker had a change of heart over gay marriage after coming face to face with couples sharing their stories.

Wade Kach, left scrambling for a seat in a packed committee hearing last month, found a spot near the witness table.

"I saw with so many of the gay couples, they were so devoted to one another. I saw so much love," said Kach, a member of the House of Delegates. "When this hearing was over, I was a changed person in regard to this issue."

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Students from Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University in Tainan flew a pilotless aircraft powered by a turbojet engine Thursday.

The school said this could lead to the ground-breaking development of personal flying vehicles, according to a report by Taiwan's Central News Agency.

During Thursday's trial flight, the 7.5-kilo turbojet aircraft was able to carry items weighing nine kilos - and travel at 150 kph, the report said.

Lai Wei-hsiang, professor of the southern school's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, said the plane named the "Sky Fortress-III" was the first university project in the world to combine a turbojet engine with a pilotless plane.

The department has been devoted to the development of pilotless planes for more than 10 years. Previous pilotless vehicles built by the university were all powered by propellers.

A research team led by Lai estimated "Sky Fortress-III," over 3 meters in length and with a wingspan of three meters, could carry up to 20 kilos.

It also has the potential to reach a speed of 300 kph.

Lai said weight capacity and speed were the main focuses of pilotless plane development.

Also, Lai said the new planes could even be equipped with other technologies, like sensor devices or photography equipment, to detect and monitor a typhoon's course and internal structure. TJD, GMA News

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24-02-2012 14:59 This is the VOA Special English Education Report , from voaspecialenglish.com | http Electronic books have changed the way many people read for pleasure. Now online textbooks are changing the way some students learn and some teachers teach. More than one hundred seventy-five thousand students attend the public schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, outside Washington. Last year, the school system used digital books in fifteen schools. This school year, middle schools and high schools changed from printed to electronic textbooks in their social studies classes.Luke Rosa is a history teacher at Falls Church High School. His students work on school laptop computers. He explains the idea to them this way: "It's just like a regular textbook, except it's got it all online." Peter Noonan, an assistant superintendent of schools, says with electronic textbooks, publishers can quickly update the content. "The world's changing consistently. And the online textbooks can change right along with the events that are happening." Online books also cost less than printed textbooks. "Usually it's in the neighborhood of between fifty and seventy dollars to buy a textbook for each student, which adds up to roughly eight million dollars for all of our students in Fairfax County. We actually have purchased all of the online textbooks for our students for just under six million dollars." Many students like the idea because it means they do not have to carry a textbook around. Also, they can write ...

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This partnership provides an online, national platform for courses targeted to palliative care programs and professionals.

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HEN offers courses for staff orientation programs, volunteer training, and annual in-services, as well as specialized clinical and regulatory courses addressing the needs of hospice programs and palliative care professionals. The partnership with HEN fits in perfectly with our strategic goals and it is wonderful to enhance HENs impressive course library with programs targeted to palliative care programs and professionals, states Jennifer Ballentine, Executive Director of LQI.

Adding LQI educational programs to HENs extensive catalogue of over 180 courses, as well as being the exclusive online provider of ELNEC courses, positions HEN as the leader in online education for hospice and palliative care. Together, LQI and HEN aim to improve the quality of care provided to patients with advanced illness and to their families by improving the knowledge and skills of their caregivers through relevant and affordable online education.

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Headquartered in Denver, Life Quality Institute is the only independent organization between Ohio and California focusing on palliative care education. LQI's expert interdisciplinary staff offers presentations and programs on a wide variety of palliative care topics from advance care planning to clinical assessment and intervention to caregiving and bereavement support.

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