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...recently passed universal health care legislation in Massachusetts was the rare reform that drew praise from both sides of the political aisle, from Senator Hillary Clinton to conservative activist Grover Norquist. The product of months of negotiations between the state?s primarily Democratic lawmakers and Republican Governor and Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, it would require the state?s residents to have health insurance or face tax penalties, while employing a mix of tax credits and expansions of programs for low-income residents that experts think will result in most of the state?s estimated 550,000 uninsured getting some kind...
...hunting itself is done by Japan's only whaling fleet, owned by Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha of Tokyo, a ship-chartering firm. Sales of the meat are used solely to fund Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR), which conducts the studies. "The IWC convention stipulates that any by-product be processed and used," explains Hideki Moronuki of the Fisheries Agency. But independent scientists say the slaughter is wildly disproportionate to the research it produces...
...Ghraib deceived us. Its sexual degradation was so over-the-top that it was difficult to imagine any senior administration official ordering it. At worst, the mistreatment seemed the product of an environment of undue permissiveness toward abusive interrogation...
...high school biology teacher preferred the coinage “product of the ’90s” to describe any behaviors or beliefs that were popular among students in spite of (or likely, because of) their hostility towards the traditional values endorsed by the founders and faculty of our all-male Christian boarding school. These included, but were not limited to, long hair, agnosticism, and habitual tardiness (in order of descending importance...
This makes the issue of manliness all the more salient because the gender-neutral society tends to dismiss it as incompatible with its ideals. Mansfield warns that male nature—the product of eons of evolution—cannot be put aside in a single generation. Moreover, he makes the case that manliness is worth keeping around for the good that it produces...