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...United States Supreme Court has begun hearing arguments in yet another abortion case, Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. At question is a New Hampshire law which requires minors to notify their parents and wait 48 hours before having an abortion. The law does not provide an exception for the health of the mother, but instead an exception that allows a woman to have an abortion only if her life is at risk. The lack of an exception regarding the health of the mother is simply unacceptable, and unnecessarily puts young women in danger. Planned Parenthood is right...
Saddam Hussein's seven co-defendants may be wondering how long he'll keep hogging the microphone. Like their deposed leader, each is accused of playing a role in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'ites after an assassination attempt against the President in the northern Iraqi town of Dujail. Prosecutors allege local Baath Party official Mohammed Azawi Ali helped arrest suspected assassins' relatives, regardless...
While most australians are sleeping, Dick Estens is plotting. Between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m., when truck drivers, factory hands and bakers are in a skirmish with their circadian rhythms, the 56-year-old cotton farmer from Moree, in northern New South Wales, is in bed whirling his mind through a problem. Estens might be crafting a game plan to outwit a Canberra bureaucrat or thinking of a way to motivate a juvenile criminal offender; he might be trying to understand the power structure in a small town or finessing a schmooze assault on a CEO target. This social entrepreneur...
...collects around a dozen younger teenagers who take part in a program called My Business Rules. The students learn about the world of work and do a team project to design a product and sell it. Craig Jenkins, a public servant who works with indigenous small businesses in northern N.S.W., explains to students the concept of business plans and what is needed to succeed. "The first 12 months is the most difficult for any business," says Jenkins, as the eager group contemplates the likely profits from its coming line of recyclable shopping bags. Motivating the town's indigenous youth requires...
...want to be a housewife. And although I come from Alabama, a state “where not very many students come to Harvard,” I usually don’t refer to people who live in New England as “a bunch of elitist northern Yankees,” as Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 says many other students from similar states...