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...food, medicine, and humanitarian aid—which he calls “pro-natal subsidies”—would read as a cruel joke if it did not so egregiously violate the most basic norms of human decency. Such statements have been echoed by people in power and have even been directed at Israel’s Palestinian citizens: At the same conference in 2003, Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Palestinian citizens of Israel a “demographic threat...
...panelists touched on issues ranging from controlling overpopulation to placing power plants in low-income areas, which they said affected women’s reproductive health...
Pernicious effects of toxins released from power plants and other sources of pollution disproportionally affect low-income populations, Jackson said, adding that landfills and other pollutants are more commonly found in poor neighborhoods...
Blechman and Jackson stressed the importance of giving low-income groups exposed to environmental toxins a say in decisions—such as power plant placement—that impact their health...
This was the era of disco, of Earth, Wind and Fire and the Commodores. Jody and the others had record players in their rooms. They threw parties and jazz concerts in Mather courtyard. When the weather was nice they would run power-cord extensions out the windows and type their papers outside, on their Smith Corona electric typewriters. They screened movies in the Science Center: once, during the newest 007 film, someone spliced in a hardcore pornographic scene right after the movie alluded to a Bond tryst...