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...human rights: All of us would agree that wanting to be someone else’s slave is unnatural. No woman in her right mind, runs the argument, can truly want to wear a burka; and even if she thought she did, humanistic states and societies should everywhere forbid this nefarious practice. Our faithful neo-Marxist friend—false consciousness—is very useful here...

Author: By Patrice L. R. Higonnet | Title: Burka in the French and American Minds | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...students of Catholicism because the past generation focused on the Humanae Vitae’s stance against birth control more than its reworking of Catholic sexual philosophy. From her own experience, Cahill asserted, many Catholic students seem to care more about the apparent obsolescence of laws than forbid pre-marital sex than they do about issues like birth control. To promote abstinence today, therefore, Cahill argued, Catholic pedagogues ought to associate sex not merely with procreation but also with “commitment” and “integrity...

Author: By Avishai D. Don | Title: Sex, Love, and Purim | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

...Forbid credit-card companies from automatically enrolling customers in often pricey programs that offer the option to charge beyond the credit limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will the Credit Card Act Affect Me? | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...also 10:53 and they're out of cups to drink with," the student wrote. "No, we can't have someone replenish the cups, but God forbid we go one night without vacuuming...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vacuuming in Cabot—the Inhumanity! | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...Malaria Initiative, says spending hundreds of millions before there's any proof that the plan will work is an ill-advised investment of finite malaria funds. "In the absence of evidence, it's a little difficult to make that leap," he says. Last year Congress specifically forbid any of the $48 billion the U.S. government slated for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria from going to the AMFm program until it proved successful. "The biggest bang for the buck is prevention," says Nahlen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In a Malaria Hot Spot, Resistance to a Key Drug | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

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