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...emergency contraception to keep at home, researchers found that they were no more likely to have unprotected sex than those without unrestricted access to the drug. Other studies have shown that access to the drug did not increase teenagers’ likelihood to engage in promiscuous sex. But, regardless, the role of the FDA is to approve drugs for over-the-counter sale based solely on the medical evidence of their safety and effectiveness; to make medical—not moral—decisions. Again refusing to approve a medically safe Plan B for over-the-counter sale would seriously...
...Regardless of one’s opinion on President Summers’ recent remarks on women in academia, the resulting international media ruckus, presumably unintentional, has at least brought the issue to the attention of the general public. There is one major source of female under-representation that begins too early for university employment policies to affect directly: too many young girls are dissuaded from studying math and science, even by their own parents and teachers. More public awareness, beyond the confines of academic discussion, can only be helpful in tackling this much larger issue...
...sharpest criticism came in response to the Educational Policy Committee’srecommendation to limit concentration requirements to 12 half-courses, regardless of whether or not a student intends to graduate with honors...
Since that vote, however, Harvard administrators have shown surprisingly strong resistance to using the termbill in this way. They have instead hinted that the College might purchase wind power through some other mechanism. The merits of using clean wind power, regardless of its source of funding, are of such overriding importance that we are open to weighing alternative strategies. But it would be premature for the Faculty Council to vote on the proposal at this time as it currently plans to do at its Jan. 26 meeting. Instead, the Council should demand that the administration propose a viable, concrete plan...
...leaders of the Shiite alliance have identified reaching out to the Sunnis as a top priority after the election. A Sistani aide told an Arab newspaper last weekend that the Grand Ayatollah believed "the representation of our Sunni brethren in a new government would have to be effective regardless of the results of the election." He also mentioned that a new government would have the standing to demand a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq - a key demand of the Sunni rejectionists, most recently expressed by the influential Muslim Scholars Association during a meeting with U.S. embassy staff last weekend...