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...Andrew Sullivan, author of Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality, offers this riposte to what he calls the polygamy diversion (New Republic, June 7): homosexuality is a "state," while polygamy is merely "an activity." Homosexuality is "morally and psychologically" superior to polygamy. Thus it deserves the state sanction of marriage, whereas polygamy does...
...Federal Register declaring that oral contraceptives can be used safely and effectively to avoid pregnancy as late as three days after intercourse. While the action falls short of formal FDA approval, which can be granted only when a manufacturer files an application, it gives unmistakable and official sanction to emergency use. "We're delighted," says Gloria Feldt, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "We've been using this procedure for many years in our clinics but were not able to publicize it" without FDA sanction...
...infamy. In the skilled hands of the G.O.P.'s attack dogs, Baer would become this year's Willie Horton, the killer whose parole came back to haunt Michael Dukakis in 1988. "Impeach him!" screamed Bob Dole, whose refusal to take even a tiny step toward initiating that severe sanction confirmed that his call was nothing more than a political stunt. But it was a potentially devastating one, as the White House knew. Clinton dispatched press secretary Michael McCurry to suggest that Judge Baer resign if he didn't reverse his ruling...
What is new is that irrationalism is gaining official sanction. It is not just Washington State subsidizing naturopathy. In 1992 Congress ordered the National Institutes of Health, the premier biological-research organization on earth, to establish the Office of Alternative Medicine. It now directs $14 million of public monies to study, as it were, the effect of potions on prostates...
...sanction students for bringing persons to the hospital," Lewis says. "We sanction students who serve alcohol to underage drinkers...