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...vetoing the bill, Bush is trying to impose this family structure artificially on women by making them choose between their jobs and their sick or newborn children...
...Republicans are right that a sick or newborn child would be better off with a full-time caregiver. But they seem to think that in families in which no one fills this role, selfish female ambition alone is to blame. In this context, the family-leave veto comes off as a punishment for rejecting what Marilyn Quayle thinks is women's "essential nature": child-rearing. If women don't want to raise their kids his way, Bush seems to be saying, businesses shouldn't be asked to make their lives easier...
...around the U.S., including Washington. The initiatives range from in-home arrangements for the elderly to school vacation programs and day-care facilities. In Washington, the House approved legislation that would provide employees with as much as 12 weeks of unpaid leave a year to care for relatives and newborn or sick children. But President Bush is expected to veto the bill...
Even aside from the abortion issue, the concept of prenatal child abuse has other disturbing implications. In less obvious cases of abuse, a mother's custody of her newborn child might depend on a positive drug test, a notoriously imperfect procedure. Twice in the past three years, New York Judges have removed children at birth after the mother tested positive for drugs, only to find later that they were mistaken...
...computer was a 7090 -- then IBM's most complex and costly machine, which retailed for up to $5 million and leased for $70,000 a month. The buyer: a newborn college in Dallas, the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest (GRC), which was later absorbed into the University of Texas system. School records show that the institution's trustees approved the order in January 1962, despite the fact that the school didn't yet have a campus. In 1964 the computer was ready for shipment, but the school could neither afford the machine nor find any space for it. Moreover...