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...carnival-esque parade inched past Madison Square Garden, a gathering of pro-life and pro-Bush demonstrators held a small counter-demonstration across from Penn Plaza, engaging several protesters in charged shouting matches. Some labeled the demonstrators “baby-killers”; “Go home, fascists!” came the response...
Robert Ashby, a College Republican at Western Kentucky University who was rallying the counter-protesters, dismissed the anti-Bush activists as “closed-minded...
...planned to distribute the RU-486 abortion pill on board, said it accomplished its main objective of "bringing the abortion issue to the fore." The Borndiep's offshore stay certainly made headlines - helped by Gomperts' appearance on Portuguese TV to explain how to induce an abortion using over-the-counter medicines. Abortion in Portugal is banned except in very limited circumstances, although an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 women have illegal terminations each year. Antiabortion campaigners called for Gomperts to face charges of inciting abortion. But the Borndiep was welcomed by pro-choice groups and opposition MPs. "The boat...
...Consulting Group. By 2007, that figure could hit $1.3 trillion. Companies like the technology because kiosks let them save on labor costs. Forrester Research, a consulting firm, calculates that airlines save $3.52 for every customer who uses a kiosk instead of a live agent at the check-in counter...
...over the secularity law was put into a new perspective. The debate over head scarves in schools has been raging since the late 1980s: the government says the display of religious symbols undermines the mission of public schools to educate without regard to race, religion or gender; Islamic officials counter that the law is really intended to target Muslims. The debate had become so partisan that much of French society was convinced that Muslims put their religious beliefs ahead of allegiance to their country. But the events of last week changed many minds. Thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims demonstrated...