Word: combatant
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...combat these tendencies would be to subject the raters to tight regulation by the sec. But that understaffed agency is unlikely to be up to the task, especially since it's not clear what exactly the task would...
...comprehensive sex education, the availability of contraception, and frequent preventative screening processes are key to ensuring the optimum sexual health of young people. When tackling problems like common STIs, policies such as abstinence are insufficient. Unfortunately, the current administration has opted to spend billions on abstinence education to combat teenage pregnancy and STIs, rather than emphasize safe sex and healthy family planning. These abstinence-only policies are dangerous for young people, because they disregard the need for information and services among those who inevitably engage in teenage sex. Rather than champion abstinence as the only form of safe sexual behavior...
...program of the current administration. Driven by the specter of terrorists in the Middle East, American foreign policy has lately assumed a more active, interventionist form. However, in Afghanistan and Iraq, this active intervention has not worked, reinforcing extremist positions rather than instilling democracy. To more effectively combat extremism and maintain stability, the United States should pursue a policy of containment and support for liberal—or at least Western-friendly—regimes...
...supporting the troops. “I understand that many students here are opposed to the war, but the majority express their views in a respectful manner,” he added, “It only disrespects those who do support the honorable men and women in combat by trying to portray them as idiots.” But Krahel said this was not the group’s intention. “We were definitely not demonstrating against the troops,” he said. “It was against the emptiness of the rhetoric...
...Mercaz Harav seminary. The dead students were clean-cut, earnest boys who had believed in a religious expression of Zionism - that they had a right to the Biblical land of their forefathers - and were ardently prepared to defend their faith and land. Many seminarians are volunteers in Israel's combat regiments. In eulogies, they were hailed as "angels" and "the holiest of the holies...