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...Abortion Funds (NNAF) is a group dedicated to the needs of America’s poorest women. A report issued in 2005 entitled “U.S. Abortion Policies Result in Later Abortions and Deny Reproductive Choice to Low-Income Women,” provides statistical data rarely discussed amongst higher-profile pro-choice circles. According to their report, “the proportion of women helped by abortion funds who have abortions in the second trimester far exceeds the national average of 12%; in some cases, 66% of the women helped by abortion funds were more than 12 weeks...
...learning proper manners, but something about this area of the country has caused an entire population to morph into curse-wielding morons. Just two hours in Harvard Yard—where one will likely hear “pisser” or “faggot” abounding amongst other disgusting words and mannerisms—is enough to make you yearn for old-fashioned Southern decorum...
Favorites Cambridge eventually sealed their success in the 4.25-mile race by one-and-a-quarter-lengths, but not before an initial lead from the Dark Blues that had hopes high amongst its supporters of an Oxford hat-trick, and gave the Cambridge boat a narrower margin of victory than had been predicted...
...What I meant was that I would not have become the filmmaker that I am if I had not been living in an occupied country and not seen an enormous amount of violence. This is my vision of the world because I grew up amongst bombing and the ruins and the dead. War was the norm and peace was the exception...
...light of the other big news from the cup: the murder of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer. But in India, where people have been eagerly anticipating this event since, well, since the last one ended four years ago, the poor performance has been cause for despair even - or perhaps especially - amongst those for whom despair has become a way of life. So far, save a few demonstrators holding up signs calling on the coach Greg Chappell or the captain Rahul Dravid to resign, and a few cases where pictures of players were set alight for the cameras, that despair...