Word: grows
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...letting a man and a woman marry if one of them is infertile? I suppose this imaginary couple could adopt, but what then of couples who do not want to have kids, who in fact both hate kids and would provide a terrible environment for a child to grow up in? Should marriages such as these be encouraged, too, simply because the couples are heterosexual? Not by the logic that justifies denying same-sex marriages. If it is the nuclear family that is threatened by a homosexual union, then there are many more marriages that the government should not hesitate...
...because I wanted to ask why the French seemed so relaxed and even indifferent. There is something in our national character that causes us to strive to be better, to work and improve. Moreover, there's the American Dream, and the notion that, for example, any of us could grow up to be president. The French really don't believe that--their presidents have gone to the same finishing school, the Ecole Nationale Administrative, for most of the past half-century. The qualities that might make you a good leader are thought to be innate. Either you have them...
...suggest that we send astronauts on a one-way trip to Mars. A station staffed by volunteer scientists would certainly have before it a lifetime of exploration and investigation not limited by a short layover. Resupplied periodically by unmanned rockets from Earth, the station would flourish and eventually grow to become the Earth colony on Mars--science fiction materialized as science fact. If one considers the major risks and astronomical expense of a return trip, not to mention the limited benefit of a short visit, a permanent stay on Mars is not so radical an idea. ALLAN I. PRESSER Fort...
...immediately dispatched workers from his firm to make repairs. Since then he has led a coalition of business leaders, community groups and students to upgrade and restore toilet facilities in local schools. Says Sigal: "It's almost like building a building...you dig a foundation, and you see something grow. You feel fulfilled...
...going to help her with childcare, or job training, and she doesn't have the education to get a job. We're going to have children on the street, going without food, education, medicine, vaccinations." New York Congressman Charles Rangel expects the cycle of despair among the poor to grow worse. "There are no jobs. This Administration is going to work hard to create jobs for these people, but the jobs won't be there in time for all these impoverished families whose benefits are going to end. I deal with these teenage mothers every day. They aren't even...