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...front of payday and predatory lenders, yes, they should be regulated. Not only should they be regulated - to prevent the extraordinary interest rates that they charge families - but we need to put these families in a place where they aren't so susceptible to them. That's why asset creation and ability to create assets is so important. Also I do think that you can't ignore the societal responsibility part of it. You can't do just one thing; they all need to be done. Teenage pregnancies. All these families I meet with, the kids are having kids...
...First, some history. The new vaccine, known as Gardasil, was approved earlier this month by the Food and Drug Administration, as the first ever designed to prevent cancer; it works by guarding against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is thought to cause about three of every four cases of cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among women, and the third most deadly around the world. It kills close to 4000 women each year in the U.S. alone...
...Such concerns in turn inspired more than 100 lawmakers to write to the CDC to warn about playing politics with what should be purely scientific judgments. "Certain activists and organizations are mounting a campaign to prevent this vaccine from becoming widely available," the letter stated. "They cite the possibility that, by preventing a horrible disease, and more than 3,700 deaths a year, this vaccine could remove an obstacle to teenage sex.... In contrast to the strong scientific evidence supporting the effectiveness of the cervical cancer vaccine, there is no scientific evidence to support the fear that its use will...
...have the makings of a classic political showdown, except that conservatives now say they were not actually "opposing an effective vaccine." "This is an awesome vaccine," Linda Klepacki, analyst for sexual health at Focus on the Family, told me when asked her about her group's position. "It could prevent millions of deaths around the world. We support this vaccine. We see it as an extremely important medical breakthrough. To read those headlines saying we're against this is really disconcerting." What they are against, she explained, is making vaccination mandatory rather than leaving it up to parents to decide...
...fully in the know" that U.S. weaponry is also being used against the Baluch insurgency. "This is all part of a bigger battle against troublemakers challenging the state," says the official. A U.S. State Department official told Time that there's nothing in the agreement with Pakistan to prevent Musharraf using U.S. military aid against Baluch insurgents. "When we transfer the equipment for them, it's for internal security and self-defense," the official says. "There's no 'for al-Qaeda use only' tag on it." Unlike the Taliban and al-Qaeda operating further north along the mountainous Afghan border...