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...nails. Which got me wondering about a recent battle in the culture wars, in which conservative groups were reported to be opposing a great medical breakthrough - the new cervical cancer vaccine - on the grounds that it might encourage kids to think that casual sex just got a little bit safer...
...strains of HPV or the many other sexually transmitted diseases. Reginald Finger, a former medical advisor to Focus on the Family who sits on the CDC advisory committee, told The Hill that "if people begin to market the vaccine or tout the vaccine that this makes adolescent sex safer, then that would undermine the abstinence-only message...
...That too was an option, of course. The Democrats might have been safer just staying away from an issue that is hurting Republicans plenty without their help. But the Democrats have decided they need to carve out a defensible position on Iraq going into mid-term elections this fall - which is why Reid of Nevada convened the meetings to begin with...
...only one that resulted in public deaths or illness was the catastrophe at Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986, which caused some 100 deaths and 4,000 cancer cases. Nuclear advocates say that plant would never have met international standards, and that the lessons of past mishaps make today's reactors safer than ever. Visiting Australia last week, Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore told ABC Radio: "Within 10 miles of U.S. nuclear reactors, 80% of the people support the reactor, because they have seen it operating for 10, 20, 30 years without any incident." A recent study by the Australian Nuclear Science...
...fulfill our dreams, we must overcome the Red Carpet Syndrome. The sooner we do so, the sooner we can embark on the path less traveled. As long as we have the Syndrome we will be limited to the safer paths. We will work for companies that do roll out the red carpet for us, but we will never take a risk for the things we really want...