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...soon every year. Prematurity is now the leading cause of death in newborns, and babies who survive often face lifelong challenges of cerebral palsy, mental retardation, chronic lung disease, vision and hearing loss, as well as other developmental problems. Just as the March of Dimes once focused the nation??s attention on polio and conquered it, today it addresses the increasing rate of prematurity by raising public awareness and funding more research to identify the causes of premature birth...
Avakian’s dogmatism prevents him from questioning the decency of a movement that killed millions and suppressed an entire nation??s cultural history...
...establishment of protections for transgender people in Harvard’s nondiscrimination policy has had effects on campuses “across the country,” including Princeton University, according to one of the nation??s leading lobbyists for transgender rights. Mara Keisling, the founding executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, praised the efforts of Harvard’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) in a lecture last night at Harvard Hall. “I was working on the Princeton policy, and the H-word was bandied about quite...
...Bush began promoting his tax cut, he repeatedly threw out one statistic intended to prove that his tax plan was actually good for the poor. The Bush tax cut, he claimed, would increase the percentage of the nation??s tax burden shouldered by taxpayers from the top 40 percent of income earners. Since so much of what Bush said about his tax plans was just plain fabricated, I and a lot of liberals assumed that this statistic was just another example of “fuzzy math.” But it wasn?...
...Cheney. Bush decided on the upper middle class; though he cut taxes dramatically for the wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers, he did very little for the upper middle class, those taxpayers between the 50th and the 1st income percentiles. This group wound up paying a larger share of the nation??s tax burden—so much so that Bush could cut taxes in a big way for the wealthiest while still claiming, correctly, that he was shifting taxes to the wealthy. Bush covered up his gift to the uber-elite by dishing out a little pain...