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These IDs are meant to assist people whose names and genders listed on their state IDs do not match with the names they use and the genders they present everyday. This dilemma may not have crossed your mind if you have always felt fully comfortable in the “male” or “female” sex category that is listed on your driver’s license...
...that - and humiliate himself publicly - or back up Gilligan, which would contradict what he had already told the Ministry of Defense. He might also have accused Gilligan of making it all up. For a man whose colleagues recall an ironclad commitment to the truth, this was a terrible dilemma - and it showed. One friend who saw Kelly the day before his testimony said he was "very worried" about his state of mind. During the hearing, he chose to slalom through the questions: without trashing Gilligan, he tried to back the government. He talked so quietly that he was asked repeatedly...
...center of the Bush administration's dilemma over sending troops to Liberia is the country's controversial president, Charles Taylor. President Bush has said Taylor's departure is a precondition for sending in U.S. troops to help maintain order. Taylor says he'll go, but only after peacekeepers arrive. And, in an exclusive interview with Time, he denies UN charges that he's behind some of the region's worst war crimes...
...China's medical schools offer ethics courses. When such classes are provided, they suggest that thorny issues can always be resolved by adhering to government policy?and that individuals' health and welfare come second. One text, Analyzing Ethics in Clinical Cases, neatly files down the horns of a familiar dilemma. On page 24, the authors present the case of a seven-month-pregnant peasant woman who is forced by family-planning officials to abort. She submits, but the baby survives. When the woman refuses to let the doctors "dispose" of her infant son, the book says practitioners should "act according...
...China: Doctors' Ethical Dilemma...