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...Then Javier Lozano Cardinal Barragán, who heads a Vatican health committee, said his panel was preparing a document that would "reconsider" the church's stance. Not so fast. Vatican sources say the church's position has not changed - and will not change soon. Officials flatly dismiss reports that the Vatican is about to release a document that will condone any condom use - even in cases in which one spouse has hiv. And Barragán backtracked, saying his office was producing only an internal "study" of the issue. "This is something that has been studied for years...
...fast. Vatican sources say the church's position has not changed--and will not change soon. Officials flatly dismiss reports that the Vatican is about to publish a document that will condone any condom use--even when one spouse has HIV. And Barragán backtracked, saying his office was producing only an internal "study" of the issue. "This is something that has been studied for years," a well-placed Vatican source told TIME. "But there's no sign at all that a document is set to come out." The official didn't rule out a possible policy tweak...
...World Bank?backed dams in Africa. "We may have learned a little bit, but not enough to make things better for average people." The IRN's Pottinger says the dam lobby often labels concerned environmentalists - incorrectly - as antidevelopment. "Calling us anti-poor is a very easy way to dismiss our concerns," she says. "But all we're doing is looking for ways to help poor people that don't have so many destructive elements." Grey says that Westerners criticizing poor countries trying to develop are applying double standards: "Either those Western countries [and environmentalists against developing the Nile] are saying...
...designed to encourage small companies to take on staff by allowing them to fire new workers within two years without risking legal reprisals or severance costs. That's remarkably similar to the law Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin championed to stimulate youth employment by making young workers easier to dismiss - and look how that ended up. But as Villepin's proposal was shelved earlier this month, an independent agency monitoring the Borloo-sponsored measure reported it had generated over 400,000 new jobs since September. Great results - but they were not enough, or soon enough, to prevent last fall...
...There's also access to the media. At that time, newspapers had editorials calling for Stanton's resignation, but today people are on television shows and cable news and are able to express their views. It allows [the public] to really look at what they're saying and not dismiss it as grumblings...