Word: lifers
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...times and will remain poverty stricken despite the rest of the world's climate policy. I have sympathy for the people of Darfur, but advocating steps to stop global warming is just wishful thinking, and using the people of Darfur to further a purely political agenda is despicable. John Lifer Jr., Clinton, Mississippi...
...only unnecessarily paints abortion as a predominantly spiritual issue to which many cannot relate, but it also creates a potentially irreconcilable segregation between “pious pro-lifers” and “blasphemous, pro-choice killers.” It builds an image of the pro-lifer as a judgmental preacher, rather than a compassionate rationalist...
Arthur T. von Mehren ’42, a trailblazer in the study of international law who taught at Harvard for nearly half a century, died of pneumonia on Jan. 16. He was 83. “He was essentially a Harvard lifer,” said his son Peter A. von Mehren ’77. “He arrived at Harvard in 1939 when he was 17 years old and spent the rest of his life there. He devoted his entire life to being a scholar in the Harvard community.” Von Mehren grew...
...Deel's neighbor Ron Longcore, 66, a burly, gruff orchardist and Oceana County lifer, wants to lease a sliver of his land to house some of Michigan Wind Energy's turbines. The money, he says, would help cover taxes and insurance on his orchards, averting the need to parcel off parts of the property to residential developers. "I'd rather see one or two towers sitting out there than a bunch of houses," says Longcore. "I want to preserve my way of life...
...Europe. On the other side are those who contend that sex education is up to the parents, not the state, and that teaching children about birth control is tantamount to condoning promiscuity. Sex-education classes are simply "sales meetings" for abortion clinics, says Phyllis Schlafly, a leading right-to-lifer. In addition, she claims, there is simply no way to tell youngsters about contraception "without implicitly telling them that sex is O.K. You've put your Good Housekeeping seal...