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...would certainly be nice if we could restore monogamous marriage without stiff moral sanction. But on this point the history of the world is not encouraging. It is hard to find a society even roughly comparable to ours that has found a painless formula for keeping divorce rare. Japan has a low divorce rate--and divorce is considered so shameful that it actually harms one's career. Victorian England had a divorce rate close to zero long after divorce was legalized--and men who left their families risked being ostracized. In 1950s America, when the divorce rate was still fairly...
...People on DIALYSIS may have a new worry. A study shows that life-spans of patients are reduced about 8% when their machines' plastic filters are routinely sterilized with a common formula, a mixture of peracetic and acetic acid, rather than another cleaner, formaldehyde. One answer is to use new filters (cost: $10 to $75) each time a patient is treated...
...people old enough to remember Tojo don't care, why does someone like Molinari hand out this tired malarkey about "experimenting" with marijuana? Because it has been certified as the formula that will put the issue to rest...
...father was among three former presidents honored as Republicans sought to revive the formula that, until Clinton won four years ago, had kept the White House in GOP hands for 20 of the previous 24 years...
...formula would give poor southern states like Arkansas or Louisiana less than $15 per poor child per week for all child care, job training, workfare policies and cash assistance programs combined. Combined. Richer northern states like New York and California will receive $40 per child weekly, but that still leaves no room for meaningful payments or innovative programs...