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Last spring, when Bush was running for the White House, stem-cell research was for most people an obscure specialty on the frontiers of medicine. In a campaign dominated by education and tax cuts, his promise, made in a letter to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, that "taxpayer funds...
Thaksin ran against the court. And he won. When the verdict came down, there was a depressing predictability to it. In our most cynical moments we suspected it would turn out like this; that, just as it seemed Thailand was moving toward genuine democracy and true rule of law and...
By 1999, according to one study, a full third of school districts had already embraced the abstinence-only approach. An entire industry has sprung up to help teens stick to their guns, including t-shirts blaring "Pet Your Dog Not Your Date" and pledge cards asking teens to forswear sex...
Though abstinence proponents like to take credit for the recent decline in teen pregnancy rates, there's nothing to say that chastity - rather than broader use of condoms - is responsible. They are also quick to trot out one part of a study of virginity pledges published last year by Peter...
President Bush is expected to make a judgment on the federal funding question sometime in the next two weeks. While the White House has made it clear that the President is "agonizing" over his options, no one seems to know which way Bush is leaning. Politically, this could be his...