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...perfect detail, the exquisite humanity that exists within the womb, especially in the later stages of pregnancy. Late-term abortions - no more than a few percent of the total performed in the U.S. - were Tiller's specialty. These are usually hard cases, sometimes the result of rape or incest or the discovery of severe birth defects. But they are, without question, the taking of a life. At the same time, the pro?life community should concede that sex education and the widespread availability of morning-after pills and condoms are necessary if we're going to prevent these tragedies...
...ramifications. The last systemic market failure—the events precipitating the Great Depression—has been studied as a historical anomaly and not as a recurring event.But at the same time, economics as a field may be predisposed against forecasting the once-in-a-century catastrophes that result from market imperfections reinforcing one another.“There has been a visceral reaction of many economists toward building market frictions or inefficiencies into their models—but that’s changing,” says outgoing economics chair James H. Stock, pointing to the significantly higher...
...single largest confirmed reduction is from the Information Technology division, which will cut up to 25 undergraduate positions as User Assistants, though FAS IT Senior Client Technology Advisor Noah S. Selsby ’95 says the cuts were not a result of the University’s cost-saving measures...
...temporary suspension of transfer admissions was explained last March as the result of overcrowded upperclass Houses that, when taking into account the number of students who would already be living in the Houses in the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 academic years, could not feasibly take on the burden of any more students. Could the school not even accept 12 transfer students per year? That would amount to a grand total of one additional resident of each House...
...sounds like the plot of a bad movie. A young British woman goes on holiday to Laos, a landlocked Southeast Asian nation that's a favorite of backpackers enchanted by its laid-back vibe and vibrant Buddhist culture. But she lands in jail on drug-smuggling charges that could result in execution. Then events take a melodramatic turn: the woman becomes pregnant while in jail - and a Laotian state newspaper claims she impregnated herself with semen from a fellow prisoner to escape the death penalty, since local law precludes putting expectant mothers in front of a firing squad...