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...Rector, who follows hunger issues for the Heritage Foundation, says, "As long as you are providing aid without requiring anything in return, the demand of that aid will be inexhaustible." Nevertheless, at least one food-bank manager believes the increased demand is just part of the adjustment that must occur as welfare reform takes hold, a necessary transition to better times. Parke Hinman, who runs a food bank in Montgomery, Ala., has seen demand rise to include families with wage earners. But, he says, "if we can provide them food, we may be the boost they need to work themselves...
Lewis said course offerings were due to the Registrar's Office by April, and the Core reform vote did not occur until...
...most important--albeit most obvious--thing we found was that when the economy is expanding, Americans are a lot less polarized. In the stories that follow, there are even some hopeful signs of ways this attitude can root firmly enough to prevent a resurgence of the resentments that can occur when times get tougher. In a period of peace and prosperity, in a land as rich and beautiful as ours, that is the real test of America's backbone...
Whenever these grisly abandonments occur, right-to-life proponents argue that we've arrived at the bottom of the slippery slope they've been warning us about since Roe v. Wade in 1973. As usual, Newt Gingrich goes too far when he talks about a culture of Dumpster babies, but why couldn't Melissa have wrapped the baby in a cloth and left him, as panicked girls used to do, someplace safe like the church steps, or turn to the Yellow Pages, filled with "pregnancy counseling" and "abortion alternatives...
...sense, Skuse and his colleagues suggest, if you postulate a gene--or, more likely, a cluster of genes--on the X chromosome that governs social skills, and if those genes are activated only when they're passed on by the father. This phenomenon, called genetic imprinting, is known to occur in humans. Thus, says Skuse, boys are genetically destined to be inept because they get their X chromosome from Mom. Girls, by contrast, are socially adroit because they get one X from Dad (not that it did him any good, since he got it from...