Word: protectant
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...that she was able to make a choice. Decades after Western feminists won the battle for maternity rights, we've reached a point where plenty of women are voluntarily forgoing those rights. Sometimes it's because they feel they have to, and it's true that laws designed to protect women have failed to end certain problems. Women's status is eroded by long absences from work, for instance; women still earn less than men - about 20% in Germany, Britain and the U.S. Socialist politician Ségolène Royal, mother of four, told the Journal du Dimanche that...
...believe gays should have the same rights as everybody else, and they should have the right to marry. We have a Constitution to protect us against mob rule. If we simply went by what is popular, black men probably wouldn't have equal rights...
...hand and repeat after Chief Justice John Roberts these words from Section 1 of the Second Article of the U.S. Constitution: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
Created by STATE? attorneys general to investigate how technology can better protect children from online dangers, the Internet Safety Technical Task Force says that a) the Internet may not be as dangerous as we think and b) technology's probably not the way to combat the dangers that do exist. Surprisingly, given the widespread fears of sexual predators on the Web, the task force also concluded that the practice of cyber-bullying may actually be more prevalent in the lives of everyday youths. (See TIME's Top 10 Children's Books...
...extra mile to avoid collateral damage in Gaza. However, some Israeli officers speak more bluntly when their audience is domestic. ("We are very violent," the commander of the Israeli army's élite combat engineering unit, Yahalom, told the Israeli press. "We do not balk at any means to protect the lives of our soldiers.") When Israeli forces shelled a United Nations school that left more than 40 dead, the Israeli military initially did its best to back its claim (denied by local U.N. officials) that the school was being used by militants to fire at Israeli forces by releasing...