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...code offers greater incentives for breeding horses than for raising children. We slash school budgets and deny working parents the right to spend even a few weeks with their newborns. We spend 23% of the federal budget on the elderly but less than 5% on children. We refer to pregnancy as a "temporary disability," putting it on a par with breaking your...
...even from pointing patients to Yellow Pages listings of clinics that would offer such advice. If a woman asked about terminating her pregnancy, doctors were instructed to recite these words: "The project does not consider abortion an appropriate method of family planning and therefore does not counsel or refer for abortion." The directive did not take effect immediately because it was challenged in several state courts, but the Supreme Court cleared away those obstacles when it declared the gag rule constitutional...
...relationship between TIME's publisher and managing editor is very ^ special. They are equals, with the publisher being responsible for the magazine's financial well-being and the M.E. for its editorial content and quality. We usually refer to this division, in which neither lightly intrudes on the other's responsibilities, as "church and state." The separation is anything but a source of divisiveness. Instead, it serves as proof that good fences make good neighbors, enabling publisher and managing editor to work as partners toward common goals. That mutual trust is one of the pillars of the success that Time...
Still, Leningraders may not get their wish. The Russian parliament must approve the change, and the Supreme Soviet insists that it will have the last word, in this case nyet. Come what may, nothing is likely to change the way the city's dwellers refer to their hometown. They have always called it, simply and affectionately, Peter...
Whatever the shortcomings of the Chamorro government, they pale in comparison with the Sandinistas' shameless pillaging of the country during the two months between their electoral defeat and the day Violeta Barrios de Chamorro took the helm. Nicaraguans refer to those rapacious weeks as "la pinata," after the papier-mache animals that children whack with a stick so they can plunder the candy stuffed inside...