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...abortion debate typically occurs within the boundaries a democracy sets, ones of peaceful, if not always respectful, debate and advocacy on both sides. But Tiller's murder reminds us that in matters of life and death, the argument itself can become a matter of life and death...
...also must raise the matter of Jones' pedigree - he is the son of David Bowie, and as a child was called Zowie Bowie - but only because there is an tantalizing connection between a song of the father and the film of the son. Bowie's Space Oddity, from 1969, takes its punning title from the Kubrick movie the year before. Released nine days before the Apollo 11 moon landing, and played by the BBC in its coverage of the event, it describes the communication of a lonely astronaut: "This is Major Tom to Ground Control... / Here am I sitting...
...while her research, which was funded by Johnson & Johnson, does not support co-sleeping, it doesn't absolutely condemn it either. One question that remains: if vast numbers of babies in Asian populations are sleeping less than their Western peers - without any apparently society-wide disadvantage - does it truly matter if babies co-sleep...
Those differences, however, don't matter much to Midwestern surfers. Last December, Vince Deur, co-chair of the Surfrider Foundation's chapter here, took a group of friends to the southern shore of Lake Michigan. The air temperature was about 25 degrees. A winter storm covered much of the lake, sending fierce winds from the north to create waves nearly 2 ft. above Deur's head. "The waves," he recalls, "had some nice shape and power." "But look," he continues, "we know that in the world of great surfing, as far as quality goes, we're at the bottom...
Meanwhile, the case is developing into a matter of national pride in both Italy and the U.S. Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, heavily criticized by the Knox family and American supporters, did not question Knox on Friday. Sources told TIME he is seething over a blog on Thursday's New York Times website, which described his case as full of flaws backed by shoddy police work. He told TIME he would react publicly to the recent U.S. criticism next week...