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Supporters of the Fernandez plan argue that although condoms are available in drugstores, many teenagers do not use them properly or consistently. That makes it necessary for schools to step in to safeguard the public's health and that of their charges. Parental consent, boosters say, is desirable but * unrealistic. "I don't know anyone whose children consulted with them before they had sex," says Caesar Previdi, principal of Manhattan's Martin Luther King Jr. High School. At Jordan High School in the Watts section of Los Angeles, teens are trained to counsel one another on sexual issues, precisely because...
Traveling from farm to market, chickens and turkeys can get loaded with bacteria. For now, the best safeguard against food poisoning is caution in the kitchen...
...their quest to safeguard domestic spending programs -- and enhance their populist appeal -- House Democrats are readying what they freely call a "soak-the-rich" tax plan. Conservative House Republicans are joining this philosophic fray with a vengeance. "We're not stating the position of the President," says Oklahoma Congressman Mickey Edwards, "nor are we stating what we think Democrats would vote for." There is a smoke-and-mirrors quality to their proposal, misleadingly billed as a tax hike on the rich. But it reflects a supply-side vision far closer in spirit to Ronald Reagan than to George Bush...
Although originally intended as a safeguard against unfair and irrelevant business practices, subsequent interpretations of Griggs have grown progressively activist and absurd. Put simply, good intentions sometimes translate into...
...power. One of the main stumbling blocks will be reconciling, as Mandela has put it, "the demand for majority rule in a unitary state" with "the concern of white South Africa over this demand." De Klerk's proposal for power sharing is to establish a constitutional mechanism that would safeguard "group rights," which sounds like a way of perpetuating privilege for the country's 5 million whites. Nonetheless Mandela recently endorsed the idea that the first post- apartheid government would be a coalition of all major parties...