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...even though it has now been ratified by 14 of the 25 member countries. The French and Dutch rejections are contradictory, as ‘no’ votes came from both the left and the right, with only moderates strongly in favor of the constitution. Socioeconomic data better explain what occurred: while Paris, most large cities and all upper-middle class neighborhoods voted in favor of the constitution, rural areas and lower-income neighborhoods voted against it. Citizens chose to take out their nervousness about unemployment and dissatisfaction with present governments on the EU. In France, the constitution...
What single factor may explain why Whirlpool Corp. no longer donates to Planned Parenthood, why the Walt Disney Co. has a Roman Catholic priest on its board of directors and why Best Buy is cracking down on minors who try to buy shoot-'em-up video and computer games? Answer: a bunch of Catholic investors and their allies want it that...
Nearly all working biologists accept that the principles of variation and natural selection explain how multiple species evolved from a common ancestor over very long periods of time. I find no compelling examples that this process is insufficient to explain the rich variety of life forms present on this planet. While no one could claim yet to have ferreted out every detail of how evolution works, I do not see any significant "gaps" in the progressive development of life's complex structures that would require divine intervention. In any case, efforts to insert God into the gaps of contemporary human...
...Connection? In his viewpoint "Why Iraq Has Made Us Less Safe ..." Daniel Benjamin pinned the cause of the London bombings on the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq [July 18]. His thesis, however, doesn't explain the motives behind the 9/11 attacks or the 2002 Bali bombings. The U.S. hadn't set foot in Iraq when those acts took place. The alarmists, especially Benjamin, need to recognize that success in Iraq?at a high yet reasonable cost?will make the world safer in the long run. Democracies don't export terrorism. Matt Motherway Manhattan Beach, California...
...Iranians feel the effect of oil money on their dinner tables.? Now he has to deliver on those promises, which are similar to those made 26 years ago by old-guard revolutionaries such as former President Akbar Rafsanjani, whose failure to deliver may in large part explain why Rafsanjani lost the election to Ahmadinejad...