Word: restrictions
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...woman’s right to abortion. The Court decided that the ban did not unduly burden women because IDX is such a rare procedure (according to the Guttmacher Institute, only 0.17 percent of abortions in 2000 were IDX) and because the ban clearly did not restrict the much more widely-used (and closely substitutable) second-trimester abortion procedure, Dilation and Evacuation (D&E), in which a physician tears a fetus apart as he removes it from the womb piece by piece...
...Libertarian Forum, said he disagreed with Heinz Kerry’s approach to the regulation of cosmetics. “We should be allowed to put whatever we want on our faces,” Harris said. “You should not ban those particular products, you should restrict the amount of pollutants that can be released by that process.” Kerry said the book was inspired by current events. “It’s 254 pages of recycled Attorney Gonzales emails,” he quipped. “We couldn?...
...administration said last week they will restrict usage of Burden and Splanger auditoriums to academic events and conferences because the facilities were built with only these functions in mind, according to MBA Program Chair Joseph L. Badaracco...
...Eggan, the project’s principal investigator. Opponents of human embryonic stem cell research criticize studies such as those envisioned by the Harvard and Columbia teams for leading to the destruction of embryos that could develop into human beings. Last year, President George W. Bush vetoed legislation loosening restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. It was the first and only veto of Bush’s presidency. One month earlier, then-Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney made moves to restrict funding for embryonic research in the state, but current Governor Deval L. Patrick...
...slow. "Dyscalculia is where dyslexia was 30, 40 or 50 years ago," says Mahesh Sharma, a professor of mathematics education at Cambridge College in Massachusetts. Indeed, even the definition is a bit fuzzy. Some researchers count disabilities in spatial perception or arithmetic operations as dyscalculia, while others restrict it to difficulty recognizing numbers normally. Cohen Kadosh's tests hold out the possibility that different math dysfunctions could well be processed elsewhere in the brain. "I won't say this study provides all the answers," says Sharma. Definitely not, but at least it helps show why, for some, two plus...