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Watch for Kennedy's leanings in November, when the court hears arguments on the constitutionality of the 2003 federal ban on dilation-and-extraction (a.k.a. partial-birth) abortions. In 2000, when the court struck down a similar ban enacted by Nebraska, Kennedy voted with the minority. This time the question is whether he'll be swayed more by his aversion to abortion or his respect for precedent...
...take sustainable roots in their nations. But many of them are not attracted to the cultural-economic box in which the sponsored democracy comes packaged. Only a few world leaders have had the courage to go straight to the heart of the matter: the birth and intensity of this century's irrational militancy has less to do with the absence of democracy than with desperate anger at the stranglehold of a long, unjust Middle East policy. Although it is still a decade away, one hopes that Ferguson's prophecy of peace in the ravaged region through mass-produced fuel-cell...
There's some death and birth and child rearing, and the possibility for enormous disaster, and the hope that enormous disaster can be averted...
...Iran's Caesarean Section Craze Well-accustomed to elective surgery, Iranian women are choosing C-sections at such a high rate that it's a challenge now to find a doctor who will perform a "medieval" vaginal birth...
...Apparently, foreign names are so utterly out of the question that most people don't even bother trying to bribe the guy at the government records office, where you register your child's birth. Like me, not everyone is aware of this in advance. An unsuspecting friend of mine tried to register his newborn daughter as Juliette Farah, and was told this was "impossible." After a frustrating back and forth during which only the word "impossible" was repeated, he finally told the clerk that "Juliette was Imam Reza's mother." This mocking invocation of a Shi`ite religious figure...