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...court judgments against smoking parents, arguing that the case against secondhand smoke hasn't been proved. In fact, some prominent scientists, including epidemiology expert Alvan Feinstein of the Yale medical school, believe the EPA may have overstated the evidence in its study. Nonetheless, most health researchers agree it is prudent to keep children away from smoke as much as possible...
...will also have to demonstrate that theUniversity--like the rest of our society andworld--is managing its affairs in a prudent andeffective way," he said
...been the subject of a lawsuit challenging unfair state educational aid formulas. The state was willing to resist calls to invest more in Hartford's crumbling educational infrastructure, but now is all too happy to jump in with a blank check to attract a football team. Is this prudent government, or just sports mania addling the already small brains of public officials...
When Roiphe alleges that date-rape awareness and campus safety lights create a climate of anxiety where none existed, she implies that fear of rape is irrational hysteria, churned up by frantic activists. But women do get raped, and being aware of one's vulnerability is prudent, not alarmist...
...only sources of wealth in the country, Babangida will not be easily dislodged. Already some thoughtful Nigerians have suggested that the interim government, though a sham, should be given a chance to solve the country's manifold problems; to do otherwise would risk more bloodshed. Yet such a prudent course may only delay the day of reckoning, when Nigerians who dream of democracy will have to risk their lives to make it come true...