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...support research and provide experience and education, and as a by-product hopefully we create a public that will act intelligently as global citizens," she said...
...however, it is the mass culture of our major cities that is exported via our speedy communications technology to all corners of the country. Kids in the interior of Alaska might now watch Beavis and Butthead rather than learn their native culture and history. Tragic? Yes, but also a by-product of a process I would be loathe to stop...
Those lush grasses and eruptions of colorful spring wildflowers around the country this week may seem like a benign by-product of El Nino's drenching rains. But they could be a booby trap for outdoors-loving Americans. Ready to pounce out of the dense vegetation on any passing body will be another effect of the moist, warmer-than-usual weather: battalions of speck-size ticks carrying the summertime scourge called Lyme disease...
...cases of STDs annually--the highest rate among industrialized countries worldwide." Of the top 10 diseases reported each year by the Centers for Disease Control, five are STDs: chlamydia, gonorrhea, AIDS, syphilis and hepatitis B. Their rapid spread in the U.S. reveals that STDs are not just a by-product of biological realities, but of social and cultural ones as well. This week's announcement is an indicator that a set of problems once considered private is so widespread that it has become public--as a threat to the health of entire communities. As such, it must be addressed...
...truth the tangle of laws currently defining sexual harassment is so jumbled that even if everyone could agree on the facts, it's simply impossible to predict the outcome of a case like Jones v. Clinton. Just 25 years ago, sexual harassment was considered a radical-fringe by-product of feminist theory. Today it's embedded in multiple Supreme Court decisions (three more are expected before July), thousands of corporate policies and a host of lower-court cases that have spread like kudzu across the legal landscape. The result is a thicket of rulings. Since 1991, juries have returned well...