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...data from the 1960s really represents American women today. Back in the '60s, induced abortions were illegal in the U.S. It's possible that some women in the study had abortions but denied it - even to their doctors - or claimed to have miscarried. That makes the data harder to interpret. Illegal abortion techniques of the day, moreover, were no doubt cruder than abortion procedures today, and they may have caused more permanent damage to the reproductive system...
...interpret H Bomb is that it’s not supposed to be arousing,” Wasserman said. “Sex is pretty broad. Not everything has to be about fucking...
...starters, because of Gaddafi's central role in Sarkozy's most dramatic diplomatic coup in his six-month presidency: the success last July in winning the release of six Bulgarian medics held on trumped-up murder charges by Tripoli. All that left even some Sarkozy allies inclined to interpret Gaddafi's visit at least in part as a quid pro quo. "The Bulgarian medics were certainly worth a visit," argued former conservative French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin...
...party agents conducting voter registration drives were required to submit an oath saying they would follow all election laws and were only permitted to have a limited number of voter registration forms in their possession at a time. Rosenfeld said the law was vague enough that local registrars could interpret it as they chose. In conducting their registration drives, the Student PIRGs sought to receive leniency regarding the requirements by developing relationships with registrars. Rosenfeld said the strategy worked, citing figures placing voter turnout for students from the New Mexico campuses at 3.8 percent, a number similar to the national...
...Kennedy School of Government from Caracas, Venezuela, said the election results might signal “a momentum shift,” since the Venezuelan president has been enjoying “victory after victory” since he was elected in 1998. He also said some could interpret the defeat as proof that the Venezuelan government is indeed a democracy. “If somebody can turn a defeat such as this into a success, it’s him,” Ortega said of Chavez. But Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann said he did not think the results...