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...line with the government’s stance on recreational drugs, the State of New York attempted to say no—when it affected its health-care workers. Until a State Supreme Court judge issued a temporary restraining order, it was state policy to require all health-care workers to be vaccinated or risk losing their jobs. Still, the state’s health commissioner believes in the vaccination policy and will appeal the ruling. This mandate was intended not merely for the safety of health workers; it was primarily to ensure the safety of patients. The rationale...
...even minor side effects. Alongside these immediate health concerns, there are larger ideological arguments. How can the government decide what we put in our bodies? And with these mandates, do we open the door for the government to take more control in other matters? The government walks a fine line when it issues such forceful mandates—on the one side, there are the rights of the workers; on the other, the safety of patients...
...prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is an ever more embarrassing problem for President Barack Obama. Once a powerful campaign line, the idea of closing the prison is now such a source of heated political debate on Capitol Hill and such a complex legal challenge that the Administration is unlikely to meet its self-imposed deadline of shutting the place down by late January 2010. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
...nuclear fuel abroad. Dividing its enemies and isolating the more hawkish among them has been a hallmark of Tehran's diplomacy, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy routinely plays the tough cop with Iran, threatening and goading its leaders and urging U.S. President Barack Obama to take a tougher line. On Tuesday, Iran struck back with a humiliating slap-down, insisting that France butt out of the deal because Tehran could not trust the nation to honor its commitments. Iranian diplomats even delayed the start of the day's talks in Vienna on the agreement, insisting that it was unnecessary...
...growing stockpile of low-enriched uranium into bomb material. Iran also liked the deal, seeing it as tacit recognition of uranium-enrichment in Iran as an intractable fact - Tehran reiterated on Tuesday that it has no intention of halting uranium enrichment, as Western powers continue to demand, in line with U.N. Security Council resolutions...