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Unlike most countries in Asia-and most countries around the world-this majority Catholic nation of some 90 million has moved away from birth control. National funds aren't used to buy condoms or pills, and, though local governments are technically free to buy them, many like the City of Manila won't. For years, international organizations filled the void. But that's changing. USAID, once a leading supplier of condoms in the Philippines, is phasing out their contraception program, and some worry other groups will follow. "They are saying that contraceptives should be sold, not distributed for free," says...
Bing planned on having one child, but birth control was never an option. For much of the last decade, the City of Manila, one of Metro Manila's semi-autonomous municipalities, has engaged in a campaign against modern contraception. In 2000, Mayor Lito Atienza issued an order effectively banning birth control from city-funded clinics. Eight years and a new mayor later, the ban persists. The city's affluent minority buys birth control from private clinics or procures condoms on the sly, but poor women, like Bing, go without...
Diddley also gave birth to a rock-'n'-roll persona--the baaaad man. "I walk 47 miles of barbed wire. I use a cobra snake for a necktie," he sang on Who Do You Love. Even though Diddley could sound tough, he was funnier than his peers and more progressive too, employing a series of female musicians at a time when rock was predominantly male. Despite his influence on the Rolling Stones and the Clash, Diddley was rarely credited as one of rock 'n' roll's creators--or paid like one--a fact, he admitted, that made him bitter...
...indeed, engineering, at Harvard and elsewhere, has come up with a few diamonds. More broadly, the thinking behind and products from engineering now drive the economic engine of our “flattened” world. Over the past decade, I’ve watched the country of my birth, India, become a land of technology developers, and my adopted home continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible...
...heavy books purchased from the Coop or checked out of Lamont library, students learned about the working-class struggle through the words of Karl Marx, and perused Niall Ferguson’s “Empire” and Christopher A. Bayly’s “Birth of the Modern World” in order to understand the reality of imperialism. We students of the 21st century closed our books this spring having swallowed Michel Foucault’s philosophies of ethics and power, content that our comfort with social theory extends beyond “supply...