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...couples in South Africa will enjoy a freedom that at best will be meager and mean. Their children could be racially classified as coloreds and sent to possibly inferior schools. And because of remaining race-restriction laws, a white and nonwhite married to each other still will technically be forbidden to live together in the same neighborhood, or travel on trains together, or go together to most beaches or movies. "I might share my bed with a white woman at night," said one colored M.P. last week, "but when we go out in the day, we have to go separate...
...absent more often and tend to have lower grades. They are also more depressed and withdrawn--a natural reaction, says Nishina, but one that "can subsequently lead to more victimization." The studies also indicate that schools take too narrow a view of what constitutes bullying. Physical aggression is forbidden, as are such forms of verbal bullying as sexual harassment and racial slurs. But the rules are generally silent about less incendiary name calling. "You're probably not going to get into trouble if you call someone fat or stupid," Nishina says. "But our research suggests victimized students felt equally...
...exterior colors of new houses, the amount of light that can be given off at night and the amount of water that can be used for gardening. In the 260-unit Arizona Senior Academy, where the Zeigers chose to settle, grass lawns and water-thirsty plants like oleander are forbidden, there are no streetlights on the roads, and half the land is preserved as open space for wildlife habitat. The houses are built in clusters of four sharing a single driveway and auto court and are designed to be inconspicuous: all exterior walls must mimic the brown and ocher tones...
...whether euthanasia is right or wrong than on how to regulate it. Yet there are striking differences in terminology and approach. In the Netherlands, a medical treatment can be terminated when it is no longer "meaningful." In Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal under certain conditions, euthanasia is still forbidden. In practice, though, voluntary euthanasia - when a doctor ends a patient's life with his or her consent - is common. A 2003 University of Zurich study showed that 7 out of 10 terminally ill Swiss resorted to voluntary euthanasia by, for example, ingesting a lethal dose of drugs or asking...
...status in Beijing circles during the 1960s and '70s, he also read the uncensored news reports sent to his father before they were fed into the propaganda machine. During heated mealtime debates, Huang was soon taking the knowledge gleaned from those papers?and from hours spent listening to the forbidden Voice of America?to challenge his father's political beliefs. "My father thought that by exposing me to the world, I would eventually figure out that the communist way was right," says Huang. "Unfortunately for him, I learned the opposite lesson...