Word: explicitness
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...lack of a federal policy on human embryonic-stem-cell research--beyond the Bush Administration's restrictions on funding--has left plenty of room for the states to seize the scientific initiative. But when they did--starting in 2002, when California and New Jersey became the first to extend explicit legal protection to such research--the result was a patchwork of laws that has paralyzed some entrepreneurs and galvanized others...
Ever since he witnessed an AIDS-awareness presentation at a Houston-area high school that went into explicit detail about how condoms could prevent the spread of the disease, the Rev. Rick Scarborough has been the kind of dedicated activist the G.O.P. has to thank for much of its current dominance. Since that day in 1992, Scarborough, 55, has believed that "Christians have a moral responsibility in this country to be involved in politics." For most of the past decade, the outspoken Baptist minister from Texas has used his pulpit to help elect conservative judges and politicians. Along...
...primarily affected law schools around the country, as the military has put significant effort into recruiting future lawyers. Harvard Law School requires all recruiters to sign a non-discrimination pledge to participate in on-campus activities, yet the military has refused to sign the pledge due to its explicit discrimination against the employment of homosexuals. Currently, their Dont ask, dont tell policy prohibits openly gay individuals from serving in the military. Given the explicit contradiction with Harvards anti-discrimination policies, the military has no right to recruit on campus...
Producer Anne T. Hilby ’05 finds that “audiences have reacted much more strongly to the hacker’s sexually explicit language when coming from a female rather than a male.” She adds, “This reflects the gender bias and assumptions that Gustavo, the director, has raised in the show...
While Turner concedes that he uses a “sexually explicit script,” he explains that “we are just using it matter-of-factly, not for shock value...