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...would so many ordinary Americans reject something that is so overwhelmingly accepted by the people who study it? A simple clash between religion and science has often been posited as the answer, but the reality is more complicated, as evidenced by the large number of scientists who believe in both God and in evolution...
...Washington Easy on the Stimulus, Please Some of the Republican Party's highest-profile governors say they may reject a small percentage of the Federal Government's $787 billion stimulus funding in the name of fiscal conservatism. They say taking federal funds to expand unemployment insurance, for example, would create a future burden on their states and lead to tax increases...
...government regulation of the environment, workplace and consumer safety. OIRA, after all, examines all proposed federal regulations before they take effect - be they issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration - and it has the power to delay or reject the ones it believes will be too costly to impose. "Every time the agencies come out with a regulation that's controversial, OIRA tries to stop it," says Rena Steinzor, president of the Center for Progressive Reform, which in January issued a report critical of Sunstein's support for cost...
...need to get beyond service, not reject it. We need to embrace our commonality in a way that affirms our shared duties as participants in a democratic society, not in a society shorn between the helpful and the helpless. Ralph Waldo Emerson, speaking of the Young American, admitted that every society would have its group of talented and ambitious young people. He insisted, however, that their role was “not to drink wine and ride in a fine coach,” but rather to “adorn life for the multitude by forethought...
...ordinary Muslims aspire to and how similar those aspirations are to any other community,” Cajee says. “Just as the media around us has the power to forge stereotypes, it also has the power to shatter them.”Indeed, because the photographs reject media stereotypes in order to focus on Islam’s spiritual elements, we are able to consider the religion not as constantly problematic but rather as a peaceful way of life. “We can see the complexity, the beauty of the Muslim world. The exhibit highlights...