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Catholic hospitals actually make up the bulk of the problem. Even though the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, which govern Catholic hospitals, states that “A female who has been raped should be able to defend herself against a potential conception from the sexual assault,” a nationwide survey found that 82 percent of their emergency rooms did not offer the morning-after pill to women who had been raped...
...diplomatic environment at the U.N. looks encouraging for Washington, in the Muslim world it does not. Last week Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, said an American war would "open the gates of hell" in the Middle East. Why the hyperbole? First, because Arab governments wonder if the U.S. will stay the course if casualties mount or stick around to help govern Iraq after a war. Second, because Iraq--cobbled together from three provinces of the Ottoman Empire after World War I--is a fragile state that could easily break up amid yet more violence. But above...
...expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?" asked Charles de Gaulle back in 1962. It's a good thing no one got the General onto the subject of wine. France has no fewer than 466 different Appellations d'Origine Contrôlée, plus some 150 Vins de Pays. This hardly mattered when the French drank most of their wine themselves; complexity, after all, is part of being French. But with adults consuming half the wine they did in the '60s, producers are having to look elsewhere. And they're discovering that foreign drinkers often...
...cleverer approach would be for the Administration to applaud those who set up the court, and look forward to the day when laws govern the ways that nations and their armed forces behave. But Washington should argue that for now, the world is a dangerous place. It often falls to the U.S., as the most powerful nation on the planet, to apply force so as to mitigate evil. True, the U.S. uses its power primarily in its own interest, as do all other nations; nonetheless, the American military machine is a unique global resource whose actions often accrue...
...heart attack, in which something, usually a clot, blocks the flow of blood through one or more of the coronary arteries--though the damage from a heart attack can be severe enough to cause heart failure. It's also not cardiac arrest, in which the electrical signals that govern the heart become so disorganized the heart can no longer pump blood through its chambers--though patients with heart failure are at much greater risk of dying from cardiac arrest...