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...Virginia should pass laws to cover the protections he aims to take away. Steps are already being taken toward this end. Republican Governor Bob McDonnell has issued a directive banning state discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Virginia’s General Assembly and other legal bodies should follow his example and also uphold gay rights. The attorney general seems to be using this hot-button political issue to make a stand against important civil liberties protections, and the rest of the Commonwealth’s authorities need not allow...
...professors do not need to make exceptions for the academic responsibilities of students leaving for travel experiences because students are able to plan ahead, thanks to syllabi handed out at the beginning of the semester, well in advance of any due dates. Provided that teaching fellows and professors consistently follow the syllabi they provide, students are able to plan ahead responsibly. In any of these cases, planning ahead could make up the weekend of lost time for academics...
...Austin richly illustrates, in the wake of the worst economic downturn in generations, that sort of innovation is starting to happen. And from that, the jobs will follow...
...mechanical apparatus of wind-power storage. Michigan autoworkers, knocked off their feet by a collapsing industry, put their skills to use in the quintessential "industry of tomorrow." Once those high-value manufacturing jobs are in place and a group of workers has money to spend, other jobs follow - at doughnut shops, hair salons, real estate brokerages and law firms...
...When the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), an inter-governmental regulatory body that oversees the world's annual tuna catch, failed last year to follow the recommendations of its own scientists and drastically reduce quotas for the fish, the tiny principality of Monaco drafted a proposal to include the fish on CITES Appendix 1. The appendix, which bans trade in endangered species, has - with the exception of certain whales and dolphins - historically excluded marine life, and Japan, which consumes about 80% of the 60,000 tons of bluefin caught each year, promised to vote against...