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...world has to be a good thing, right? That's what the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) thought. But now it finds itself under fire from American conservatives for proposing a new set of guidelines on sex education in schools as a means of helping young people avoid potentially dangerous sexual activity...
...This isn't about teaching 5-year-olds how to masturbate, but rather providing young people with better information about themselves and how they can avoid trouble and danger," says Sue Williams, chief of UNESCO's press-relations department in Paris. "We're not surprised by this reaction, nor the places it's coming from. In fact, our very goal with such recommendations is to initiate the kind of debate, reflection and action that moves the topic forward. Our desire now, however, is that the debate be both informed and balanced...
Salvy, who is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo, refers to this phenomenon as a sort of feedback effect. Conversely, she suggests, overweight diners are more likely to tone down how much they eat in front of skinny people to avoid the stigma of overeating...
...even if most of the noise about Obama is nonsense, there is one area of concern that could affect the ultimate success of his presidency. It is his tendency to overlearn the lessons of past presidencies, especially when those lessons enable him to avoid taking responsibility for tough decisions. It has been widely observed that Obama overlearned the lesson of the Clinton health-care effort by deferring to Congress to write the legislation. It has been less widely observed that the President overlearned the lesson of Bush's hyperpoliticized Justice Department by leaving to Attorney General Eric Holder the decision...
...says Chevron spokesman Kent Anderson, Nuñez "needs to [recuse himself], and his past rulings need to be annulled." The plaintiff's lawyer, Pablo Fajardo, says the videos are an entrapment of Nuñez and show Chevron attempting to "undermine the trial process so the company can avoid paying a judgment." Says Donziger: "The bottom line [remains] that Chevron is responsible for wrecking Ecuador's rain forest. Nothing Chevron has presented in these videos changes these underlying facts one bit." Chevron's bet is that the videos will at least change international opinion about the court that...