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...Although no one keeps a precise count, at least 30,000 people have undergone "sex reassignment" surgery since it became widely available in the late 1970s. The law is trying to keep up. Most states now permit transgender persons to change their driver's license and birth certificate to conform to their new status. And 39 cities--beginning with Minneapolis, Minn., in 1975 and now including Denver; Atlanta; Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Rochester, N.Y.--have passed nondiscrimination ordinances protecting transsexuals in schools, jobs and housing...
Human-rights activists and others believe the new legislation merely reflects Turkish officials' attempts to conform to E.U. norms without changing the spirit of how laws are applied. There is a prevailing sense in Turkey that laws exist to protect a "sacred" state from irrational individuals, rather than to protect individuals from possible arbitrary actions by the state. "It's up to the courts to interpret the laws in accordance with Turkey's commitment to join the European Union and to abide by the European Court of Human Rights," says Jonathan Sugden of Human Rights Watch. That view appears...
...about a quarter of graduating students that require only a B grade point average. Though far too many students—91 percent—receive honors, the standards for honors in general studies should be raised instead of abolishing the category entirely. Students should not be forced to conform to one department’s narrow definition of honors in order to be recognized for distinctive and extraordinary work...
...dismisses them because they violate the axioms that he has chosen to live by. What exactly is “truth” and what does it mean “to know”? To Weinberg, truth is learned through observations, and we test theories by how they conform to those observations. To his critics, the very nature of who Weinberg is affects those observations, and thus they can’t be counted on to deliver the fundamental truth. That said, precise, specific and, above all, accurate examples of how cultures experience physical phenomena differently are hard...
...country founded by rebels and settled by refugees is a happily untidy place, slow to conform, quick to adjust. Another week passes, another adjustment: first came permission to laugh again, make fun of the President, shop; now comes the license to argue again--the "music of democracy," one House member mused last week. It was almost a relief to watch lawmakers who used to loathe one another make common cause in their loathing of John Ashcroft's antiterrorism bill. Did anyone actually mourn the death of bipartisanship? It was a bloodless phantom anyway: all lawmakers love their country and would...