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...country as a whole is headed in the wrong direction for scientific progress. Stem cell research holds promise for the future treatment of chronic diseases; it would be foolish to ignore it. California, historically a trend-setter, has shown us a path which other states would be wise to follow...
...decided that having children outside of marriage was a lesser evil than abortion. "Instead of berating women, they became very supportive of unmarried mothers," Fahey says. Low fertility rates in Italy and Spain, also 1.29, spring from high youth unemployment, the prevalence of short-term work contracts, a chronic shortage of affordable housing for young people - and a bias in the workplace against women who interrupt their careers to have kids. Barbara Cavuto, 35, a Rome manager at an employment services company who's eight months pregnant with her first child, says combining family and career still doesn't seem...
...time when chronic masturbation was thought to cause blindness and oral sex thought to permanently damage the uterus, Kinsey, founder of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex and the titular subject of director Bill Condon’s latest biopic, lectured with a forty-foot phallus as a visual aid in his infamous marriage course at Indiana University...
...first section of the report focused on the most dangerous types of alcohol abuse, including drinking that leads to alcohol poisoning or death, as well as serious alcohol dependence. In this report the term dangerous drinking includes a broad range of drinking behaviors from sporadic binge drinking to chronic alcohol dependence. As the committee notes, dangerous drinking can lead not only to alcohol poisoning and death, but also contributes to sexual assault, rape, violence and serious accidents. Surveys conducted at Harvard in the past support this observation—40 percent of students report doing something while drinking that they...
...many Kerry supporters instead must simply learn how to function at whatever stage of recovery they can attain. I know plenty of folks who plan to nurse their anti-Bush ire, using it as a motivating tool to work even harder for a Democratic victory next time. Such chronic rage may sound unhealthy--but it did the trick for Newt Gingrich's troops in the wake of Bill Clinton...