Word: dogma
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Fighting AIDS in Uganda Your article on Uganda's use of condoms in the past to fight aids [Sept. 26] noted the controversy over whether the Ugandan government is now promoting a "message of abstinence based on religious dogma" in response to U.S. pressure. From 1992 to 2002, Uganda had remarkable success in reducing its hiv rate because of a number of factors, including strong national political leadership, comprehensive prevention strategies and promotion of condom use and safe sex. The abstinence-only approach appeared only after the U.S. started exporting that ideology after 2001. U.S. funding for hiv prevention...
...their pockets," Karl Cardinal Lehmann, head of the German Bishop's Conference, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung earlier this year. The Greens may have had a disappointing result in the German election, but environmentalism remains a core European value. And there, perhaps, is the point. So much of '60s dogma has become mainstream that young Europeans have nothing to protest about. Rebellion has been transformed into angst. The politics of passion has given way to quotidian worries about jobs, pay and pensions. (You can't despise capitalism and enjoy the consumerist heaven to which young Europeans aspire.) Grand schemes...
...learn almost as little, except when Mr. Kyu unwittingly borrows 1984, which Delisle slyly describes as "science fiction." Mr. Kyu later returns the book nervously but says little about it except that he "doesn't like science fiction." The apparently humorless Mr. Sin says little more than party dogma. He becomes emotional only during a visit to the huge museum dedicated to Papa Kim, where visitors must wear comical giant slippers so as not to scuff the floor. "What a great and generous man!" Sin exclaims at the ludicrous and nearly endless display that concludes with a wax replica...
...just under 7% today. Has the Ugandan government now forgotten its alphabet? A group of Ugandan and Western organizations and a senior U.N. aids expert claim that Uganda has over the last year allowed a condom shortage while promoting a message of abstinence based on religious dogma. "It's been a deliberate government policy to shift the emphasis from ABC to AB," Stephen Lewis, the U.N. Secretary-General's special envoy for hiv/aids in Africa, said last month. Ugandan aids campaigner Beatrice Were agrees: "There is a new wave of stigma ? attached to the use of condoms. Those...
Evolution is being taught as unquestionable scientific dogma. As a high school student, I have repeatedly observed that any attempt to debate Darwin's theory is immediately shot down by the teacher and quickly followed with the accusation, direct or implied, that the student who dares to think outside the evolutionary box is an anti-intellectual idiot. That approach hampers science, for it is a field that thrives on the testing of theories and on the questioning and seeking of more accurate knowledge. How will science ever be able to progress if students are told there is only...