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...home. Aside from corruption, Brazil's public bureaucracy is one of the world's most wasteful. Education, despite increased funding and access, is an embarrassment: students consistently score near the bottom of international math, science and reading tests. Exorbitant taxes and violent crime scare off foreign investors, and in the Amazon, deforestation remains a problem...
...that allows a woman to go into labor when her body is ready and to labor as long as she needs to. He is a hero to women who want to birth the way nature intended and on their terms. Dr. Tate's record of success belies the VBAC scare tactics by doctors who want women to schedule deliveries for their own convenience. Kate Sandhaus, ATLANTA...
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...paper’s 12 co-authors redacted their contributions, and the scientific community as a whole discredited the study. As such, it is unreasonable for parents to continue to blame MMR for a disorder that scientists have rather conclusively proved is unrelated. Most unfortunately, the scare perpetuated by believers in the link between autism and the MMR vaccine has led to a sharp decrease in the number of children receiving the vaccine. Currently, every state has a law that mandates vaccination before a child enters public school. States do, however, provide exemptions for medical, religious, and philosophical reasons?...
...Republicans released a list that mocked $75 million for "smoking-cessation activities," which are actually a terrific way to hold down the long-term health costs that threaten the Treasury's long-term solvency, as well as $6 billion "to turn federal buildings into 'green' buildings," with the telling scare quotes deriding the idea of creating short-term jobs for retrofitters while reducing long-term federal energy costs and emissions. There has been a sensible push to add even more money for mass transit, which reduces energy use, increases the competitiveness of metropolitan areas and helps working families. Expanded unemployment...