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...discourse about women’s psychological trauma first entered the legal conversation concerning abortion with the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, in which pro-choice proponents argued that abortions could prevent the distress caused by an unwanted childbirth, according...
When Kid Cudi leaves the stage, you really just have two options remaining: continue the party or take steps to prevent your hangover. If you’ve got some extra dough to shell out you could start bumpin’ and grindin’ (and flying?) at Rumor with the gentlemen of the PSK. If not, you could always sit back, relax, and listen to Kid Cudi while staring into the iTunes visualizer...
...Jerusalem Post, citing Israeli military sources, reported on Tuesday that Syria rebuffed an Israeli overture to have indirect military communications through the U.N. observer force that monitors the demilitarized buffer zone between the two sides in the Golan, whose purpose is solely to prevent an outbreak of violence. So this year's Independence Day picnickers on Mount Hermon will enjoy their hummus under what appears to be a looming storm cloud...
...system is by no means mathematically perfect, and, like any other system, it can still be manipulated. The system does, however, provide solutions to a variety of problems with our current electoral system. It could prevent low turnout primaries from determining the general election slate of candidates while also not allowing every candidate who files for election a place on the ballot for November elections. If America had instant-runoff, a majority of abolitionists might have elected an abolitionist president in 1844, and a majority of liberals might have elected a liberal president in 2000. The winning candidate of every...
...chief concern of the U.S. is to prevent the new leadership from kicking out the U.S. air base in the northern city of Manas, which is a vital transport link for America's war in nearby Afghanistan. About 50,000 coalition troops passed through it in March alone. On Saturday, Otunbayeva assured U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the new Kyrgyz government would abide by previous agreements to let Manas operate. But the Russian government has lobbied hard to force Kyrgyzstan to evict it, with a senior Russian official telling reporters on April 8 that "in Kyrgyzstan, there should...