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...when there wasn't much of a fundamental disagreement. Sprigg contends that there's "a theme running through liberal criticism of the Bush Administration and conservatives in general that they are anti-science. This a theme they'll point to on things as disparate as global warming, intelligent design, RU-486. I think people with that mindset just latched onto this, thinking it looked like a good example of that theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defusing the War Over the "Promiscuity" Vaccine | 6/21/2006 | See Source »

...invested with him, and I was persuaded." Rodríguez describes himself as "one of the victims" and says that most of his local clients have been "reasonable." At his office, he advises clients to be patient and gather together all their pertinent documents. But Pilar Vicente Ruíz, a homemaker with €6,000 invested, is one of many still furious with him. "If he could come to our house to sell us the policy," she asks, "why can't he come to our house now to tell us what to do?" As investors await the outcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stamps of Disapproval | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...what's the next step for the beach boy who has the girl's number? You don't muck about, explains the tall, blond Tank. Best to fire off a message that night, something like, "hi its tank met u @ beach 2day how ru wots up." With luck, the girl will message back and they'll exchange innocent texts for a few days. It then falls to the boy to raise the stakes. Tank's preferred lines are, "when was yr last bf" or "how far have u gone." A girl you've met once for five minutes replies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fingers Do the Flirting | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

...issue while writing about birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger, and his landmark 1966 book, Abortion, was cited by the Supreme Court in its 1973 ruling to legalize abortion. He co-founded the pro-choice group now known as NARAL; lobbied for the manufacture of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 in the U.S.; and targeted abortion opponents in lawsuits, including an unsuccessful challenge of the IRS for giving tax exemptions to the Catholic Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 22, 2006 | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

...drugstore. And there are alternatives to surgical abortion that weren't around years ago, which give women a greater incentive to make their abortion decision early in their pregnancy. Fully 24% of the St. Louis Planned Parenthood clinic's first-trimester abortions are being done with mifepristone, formerly called RU-486, which was federally approved in 2000 for use in the first 49 days of pregnancy. Two years ago, it was only 18%. And finally, there is an alternative that one side of the debate calls contraception and the other considers abortion: the so-called morning-after pill, which must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where The Real Action Is... | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

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