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...McCarthy said. “I don’t think we will win the war if we make marriage the only issue.” McCarthy stressed that the LGBT community should show greater concern for adoption rights, as ballot initiatives in states like Arkansas are trying to prevent gays and lesbians from adopting foster children. “When you deny us the right to adopt children, that’s getting into the territory of prejudice that is more insidious than denying gay marriage,” McCarthy said. In addition, McCarthy spoke about the precedent...
...opting out of culture wars, because in the end the most that will ever be at stake is a grade. A worker cannot adopt this bystander perspective. Workers let down other people when they fail at their work. Cultural differences stop being endearing and start being frustrating when they prevent one’s own success in another society. These clashes are necessary to help one understand another people’s way of life, and they are more likely to happen in the high-stakes workplace than in the ivory tower of study...
When crowds are moving, there should be no more than two to four people per square meter to prevent injury. It's a simple mathematical reality. Otherwise, people do not have enough room to recover from being jostled. Someone can easily fall. Then someone else will lean down to help that person and get sucked down, too. The pile up begins, absorbing the growing pressure of all the people coming from behind...
...department is planning another meeting with stores for mid-December to share crowd-management strategies and try to prevent future fiascos. So far, Mulvey says, Wal-Mart has been very cooperative in the investigation into Damour's death. "We will continue to work with local law enforcement officials so that together we can implement even stronger safety measures going forward," Mullany, the Wal-Mart executive, said in a statement...
There are no answers yet to questions about who was behind the attacks and why the government did little to prevent them or react quickly enough. Local police have arrested a group of water vendors from the neighboring country Niger and accused them of being mercenaries. However, analysts say they are being used as scapegoats, and Niger's foreign envoy strongly condemned the arrests, saying the men were simply doing their jobs and had no involvement in last weeks incidents...