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...website Mumsnet.com, a Web portal for decidedly middle-class British mothers (one of the most active forums this week: "Crucial biscuit question - which are posher: Rich Teas or Custard Creams?). Justine Roberts, the founder of the site, says parents have been confused by what they see as the conflicting approaches of health officials in responding to swine flu. Until July 2, some areas of the country had been taking a containment approach - testing all suspected cases, closing schools with confirmed cases and offering the antiviral drug Tamiflu as a prophylactic to those who'd come into close contact with suspected...
...routes between Sanaa and destinations outside Europe when they are the cheapest or only options. And with the doomed A310 having continued flying between Yemen and London with the approval of British safety officials even after the French ban, blacklisting individual airlines may not be an effective or fair approach...
...growing tendency of the poor to have children before marriage - the vast majority of unmarried women having babies are undereducated and have low incomes - is a catastrophic approach to life, as three Presidents in a row have tried to convince them. Bill Clinton's welfare-to-work program encouraged marriage, George W. Bush spent millions to promote marriage, and Barack Obama has spoken powerfully on the need for men to stay with their children: "We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability...
...lawmakers continue to struggle to find a way to pay for a health reform that could cost $1 trillion or more over the next decade, Barack Obama seems to be opening the door a little wider to an approach he soundly rejected when John McCain proposed it during last year's presidential campaign: taxing the health benefits that employers provide their workers. "This argument has evolved," he said Wednesday at a town-hall meeting on health care in Annandale, Va. And it appears that Obama...
...ruling, but there would be heavy pressure to conform, since states that don't adopt the mandate could lose their highway funds. "The national 21 minimum drinking age and the .08% law [for allowable alcohol in the bloodstream] both resulted from federal highway sanctions. History tells us that this approach works," says Laura Dean-Mooney of MADD. So far only 11 states require interlocks for anyone with one conviction who is currently driving on a DUI-restricted license...