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...door to religious freedom." Steven McFarland, head of the Center for Law and Religious Freedom, a conservative Christian group, demurs. "The First Amendment protects religious belief absolutely, but not religious practice. Child welfare is a classic example," he says. "If irreparable harm to a child is about to occur, the state's duty to protect the child trumps. Those folks in Oregon should know that the cost of their belief can be criminal prosecution if they allow a child...
There are several reasons for singling out teenage girls. For one thing, they develop chlamydia more often than adults. In fact, whenever health experts track cases by age, they find that about half of all chlamydia cases occur in girls ages 15 to 19. Reason: the younger the woman, the more vulnerable to infection is her cervix, the ring of tissue that protects the opening to her uterus. In addition, chlamydia often infects silently, with few or no initial symptoms. Although it is easily cured with antibiotics, the longer it remains undetected and untreated, the more likely...
...theday after Commencement, voiced disapproval of theway the planning process is being handled. "Therewas a kind of rump revolt," said Adeline Naiman'46, a member of the Radcliffe Club of Boston.Wilson wrote in bold faced letters in a June 18letter to alumnae that "no hasty or precipitousactions will occur...
Because of this adaption process, normally deployments do not occur until the third day of a mission, Collins said...
...authors, Michelle Fine and Lois Weis, document hundreds of interviews of young adults in the age range of the twenties to early thirties. The interviews occur in Jersey City and Buffalo, cities chosen because of the de-industrialization that has displaced large segments of the working class since the 1970s. For these Gen Xers, the problems of the inner city go far deeper than a slim section of jobs in the want ads. Interviewees consistently say that the sense of community, the thread that once held urban cities together, has frayed and, in some cases, split altogether. They talk about...