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...subject was twisted and warped by a few people who had no known invested interest in Central Square," Barron says. "These so-called activists are causing harm to the businesses and the neighborhoods...
...them more money. Failing to differentiate among the many programs and agencies formed to help families is synonymous with acceptance of mediocrity. Ineffective, inefficient nonprofits are a waste of resources and a waste of creative energy--I would go as far as saying they can, at times, do more harm than good. In contrast, social entrepreneurs are practical idealists because they employ every possible strategy to translate their personal commitment to social justice into action...
...program that began in November 1998, mothers are permitted to abandon their newborns at hospitals and walk away--no questions asked. In exchange, district attorney John Tyson has agreed not to prosecute the mothers if they bring the infants within three days of birth and don't harm them. "We're just trying to prevent a desperate situation," Tyson says. "If you could have a healthy, bouncing baby as opposed to a dead infant, which one would you choose?" Indeed, after a spate of tragic "Dumpster baby" stories in the media, states from Alabama to California are choosing to debate...
Whatever the motivation, Bauer's endorsement, while hardly a monumental event in McCain's campaign, needs to be handled carefully by the Arizona senator. In conservative, upcountry South Carolina, Bauer is an asset, but the arch-conservative's stamp of approval could do more harm than good once the campaigns leave the South behind. In Michigan, particularly, McCain will want to come across as a true centrist; after all, he'll be courting the Grosse Pointe Republican contingent, who blanch at overtly conservative language on social issues like abortion. As long as McCain loosens his affiliation with Bauer after South...
...false optimism Reeve is peddling is not just psychologically harmful, cruelly raising hopes. The harm is practical too. The newly paralyzed young might end up emulating Reeve, spending hours on end preparing their bodies to be ready to walk the day the miracle cure comes, much like the millenarians who abandon their homes and sell their worldly goods to await the Rapture on a mountaintop. These kids should instead be spending those hours reading, studying and preparing themselves for the opportunities in the new world that high technology has for the first time in history made possible for the disabled...