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...can’t seem to escape to protective bubbles of security, the palette isn’t cherry reds or tangerine oranges or berry blues. It’s the cold grays of the San Francisco fog that rolls in every morning, reminding us that regardless of what might have been a year or two ago, what really matters is what the world is like today...
...wives as "young, immature, lower-class spouses" who have "difficulty controlling their reproductive tendencies" may have given the wives of military personnel a bad name [NATION, July 16], but it's not just Army wives who are stereotyped. Poor women of all types are seen as unstable baby factories. Regardless of what the wage earner does, if the salary isn't enough to pay for child care, then the spouse cannot afford to go to work. What appears to be a military problem is a symptom of a larger class problem. How about affordable, high-quality child care...
...worst part of this quandary for Bush is that even after he makes his tough decision, the issue won't go away. Congress will take a crack at it, and court challenges are under way. Private researchers like those in Virginia and Massachusetts will continue to study stem cells regardless of what Bush does, since they don't receive government funding. (Congress could decide to regulate all stem-cell research, public and private, which would face Bush with another hard choice...
...intuition that something at the heart of global capitalism is amiss - not entirely because of the disparities between rich and poor, (most boats might presumably be lifted by an impartially rising tide), but more because they see the spiritual and environmental damage - the things that the tide permanently destroys, regardless. It wasn't the Indians, after all, who wiped out the buffalo...
...number of senior faculty members said that the position is unattractive, regardless of how Summers defines it. They cited their already heavy workloads of research and teaching and frustration with administration as reasons they would not not want to serve as a provost...