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This is no to deny that surrogate motherhood creates moral conflicts which need some legal resolution. But ironically, the biggest problem is the natural mother's desire biggest problem is the natural mother's desire to retain ties to her baby, not her willingness to sell it. Far from being eager to barter the kid away, these mothers often go to court for visitation rights precisely because they, like Cuomo, feel that the value of their child cannot be reduced to a mere compensation fee. After having promised OT give the baby away, they find that their ties...
...revenues may be worthwhile to retain big businesses, Tulimieri said. "Municipalities will allow less than what they would normally expect to receive in tax revenues from the developer," he said...
...sons of the Prophet brought no Arab women with them; they intermarried with Iberian ones. The conquering power became an indigenous one in short order, although the successive caliphs tended to retain a nostalgia for Baghdad. Out of the Moorish conquest grew the first unified culture Spain had seen since the collapse of the Roman Empire. It lasted until 1492, when Catholic armies, under Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, drove the last vestiges of Arab power back to North Africa. If you want to grasp why Spain, traditionally, is unique in Europe, you must begin with the fact...
This sounded like the real stuff; a band this scary was likely to retain its genuine outsider status for quite a while. All the articles included in their brochure warned that a GWAR show would turn my stomach. Mainstream Rolling stone ignored them, while the more clued in Spin thought they were hilarious, pushing mass culture's rampant images of sex and violence to an absolutely nauseating hilt. Their album was called America Must Be Destroyed, their forthcoming video Phallus in wonderland...
There were complex alternatives that could have been more fully considered by the President, such as issuing a clear warning to Japan that the U.S. had created an atomic weapon, perhaps combined with a demonstration detonation and a surrender ultimatum that made clear that Japan could retain its Emperor. Likewise McCullough skirts the tortured debate on "atomic diplomacy," reducing it to the question of whether the Bomb was dropped in part to frighten the Soviets and then quickly dismissing this theory without exploring the complexities of revisionist arguments over the causes of the cold...