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...item "Birth Control, Self-Control" (NATION, Dec. 22), you reported that the National Academy of Sciences endorsed making contraceptives and abortion available to teenagers through the schools. The academy went on to say teens are not likely to heed advice to remain celibate. It is no wonder, when impressionable youngsters are exposed to advertising that sends not so subtle sexual messages. Before we turn the home economics room into an abortion clinic, I suggest that the media consider the long-range implications of the sexually saturated material that is bombarding teenagers daily...
This was not what Congress had in mind in 1980 when it enacted the subsidy. The idea was to stimulate the birth of a new industry that would make synthetic fuel competitive with the price of conventional oil and gas. To achieve that end, lawmakers pegged the value of the credit to the price of crude oil. If oil prices were to rise above a certain level, the synfuel industry would no longer need the credit to make a profit and the subsidy would be phased out. As long as oil prices were below $50 per bbl., synfuel producers could...
Indeed, other states -- Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee -- have introduced bills this year to ban most abortions. The Supreme Court may soon reveal which way it's leaning. It has agreed to hear a case challenging late-term, or "partial birth," abortions. The court last weighed in on this topic in 2000, narrowly striking down a ban on the procedure. The swing vote: Sandra Day O'Connor...
Before getting to the things that Bernard-Henri Lévy does well in American Vertigo, his entertaining and insightful account of how, last year, to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville - the aristocratic French author renowned for his perceptive and enduring classic, Democracy in America - the U.S. monthly magazine Atlantic commissioned Lévy, who is perhaps the world's most famous living celebrity-intellectual, to retrace the steps of De Tocqueville's 1831-32 ramble through the young republic, a trip that inspired Democracy, let's identify, just for the record, the single...
...Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and, um, Oprah? It isn’t as if black women haven’t been present and active the entire time. Contrary to widely held opinion, black women have made huge contributions to American history that go well beyond simply giving birth to and supporting black men. Women such as Ida B. Wells, Ella Baker, and Shirley Chisholm (whom I’m ashamed to admit that I myself never heard of until I came to college) each made complex contributions to the social and political history of the United States. Thanks to Wells...