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...Picture Thank you, Joe Klein, for being the rare writer to condemn both the use of torture and the release of its images [June 1]. The response to the use of torture should be based on a factual examination, not on a visceral reaction to pictures. Images are not necessary to understand and evaluate what has happened. One can assess a story about a murder, for example - and have a complete moral response - without seeing the crime-scene photos. Nadia El-Badry, DOBBS FERRY...
Thank you, Joe Klein, for being the rare writer to condemn both the use of torture and the release of its images [June 1]. The response to the use of torture should be based on a factual examination, not on a visceral reaction to pictures. Images are not necessary to understand and evaluate what has happened. One can comprehend and assess a story about a murder, for example--and have a complete moral response--without seeing the crime-scene photos. Nadia El-Badry DOBBS FERRY...
...said Seltzer, one of the authors of the 2007 editorial. “They’re claiming broader protections than the law would give us.” According to Seltzer, who read the cease and desist letter, copyright law only covers the selection and arrangement of factual information and not the information itself, such as textbook titles and prices...
...clear that much would change. That's because for all the battles over funding and policies, no one really knows how sex education is taught inside most classrooms. While most states and local school districts have policies regarding sex education, very few set standards on how to give students factual information about sex or teach them to develop healthy relationships. Even fewer attempt to evaluate what is covered in the classroom, and 17 states don't even require sex education to be taught in public schools...
...comprehensive sex-education model used in District 3 is sometimes referred to as "abstinence first" or "abstinence plus" because it combines factual information about birth control and STIs with a strong message that kids should wait to have sex. From what Jordan and her colleagues have seen, it best fits the reality of most teenagers' lives. Most students won't wait until they get married to have sex, so they need to be told more than "Just say no." But with 66% of teenagers nationally saying they wish they had waited longer before having sex, they're also looking...