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...Abortion is only one front in the privacy wars, but at Roberts' confirmation hearings, whether a privacy right exists will function mainly as code for whether an abortion right exists. Among liberals, a major defense of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion, is that if it is overturned the destabilizing effect will be great, denying women a legal right they have had for 32 years. But to many conservatives the matter has never been settled as the Warren Court's original recognition of a constitutional right to privacy (in a 1965 case involving the use of contraception) provided...
...Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence reports sent in April 2003. One, dated April 10 and marked CONFIDENTIAL, logs U.S. troops backed by armor moving through the city of Kut. But, it asserts, "we are in control of the city." Another, with the same date, from a unit code-named 1546, claims "forces attached to us" had control of the city of Amarah and had occupied Baath Party properties. A 2004 British army inquiry noted that the Badr organization and another militia were so powerful in Amarah, "it quickly became clear that the coalition needed to work with them to ensure...
...University Sees Renovation Blitz,” News, Aug. 5: The code-of-conduct-for-construction-worker signs conspicuously placed around Sever Hall perpetuate a class stereotype of these workers as cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking, misogynistic, homophobes ignorant of how to behave on the civilized confines of an Ivy League university. If I were one of these workers I would feel humiliated by the condescension of these signs, and their public display would add to the insult. Construction workers may be so unevolved that they earn their living by the sweat of their brow, but they are human beings...
...based on what they found at the scene. "You have to make inferences from footprints and other types of evidence." As it happens, he notes, there is a huge amount of evidence of evolution not only in the fossil record but also in the letters of the genetic code shared in varying degrees by all species. "The pattern," says Dawkins, "is precisely what you would expect if evolution would happen." Dawkins insists that critics of Darwin are wrong to say that evolution has become an article of faith among scientists. He cites biologist J.B.S. Haldane who, when asked what would...
...renovations also included updating safety systems and bringing fire and sprinkler systems into line with revised code...