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...Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis, an eight-hour round trip by car. That meant Lisa, who has no car, not only had to ask a friend to drive her but also had to come up with an excuse for missing two days of work, because she was afraid to tell her boss the truth. Two weeks later, she had to make the trip again, for a follow-up exam that lasted about five minutes. She figures the whole episode--the clinic's bill, the prescription for the abortion drug mifepristone, gasoline, food and incidentals--cost her a little more...
...audience to take inspiration and action . “Get someone in America to call you a dangerous Negro,” Rushing challenged the audience after stating that officials in U.S. government feared King and referred to him as such. “Who in America is afraid of what you are doing? It is time for all of you to become dangerous Negros...Who at Harvard wants to expunge you from the record?” Rushing spoke against the war in Iraq and called for social action on issues such as homelessness, healthcare, and gay marriage...
...days after the first Kocyigit child died, that the Turkish government launched a public-information campaign: setting up a telephone helpline, broadcasting health warnings on television and blaring the messages from mobile loudspeakers. One unmet challenge was to overcome farmers' reluctance to tell authorities about suspicious deaths. "They are afraid to report sick or dead animals," says European Union Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou, "because that could mean the entire stock is destroyed." In the short term, Turkey will have to offer poor families compensation for birds that are culled. In the long run, though, countries like Turkey need to teach...
There was controversy over the film's title. People being afraid of the word Muslim is the reason I made the movie. It doesn't attack religious beliefs. There are R-rated sex comedies that are far more offensive...
...Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep...