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...days just before and after high-sugar holidays like Halloween and Valentine's Day constitute a veritable sucrose feeding frenzy in schools. Many school clubs and organizations depend on the sale of overpriced candy bars and other sugar-laden snacks as a fund-raising tool. There is seldom a time during the school year when some group is not selling some sugary treat. And obviously, if students buy it, they're going...
...inject some moral vigor into their largely materialist lives—and that businesses respond. From “hormone-free” to “dolphin safe” to “biodegradable,” products brandish such quasi-moral labels with a righteousness seldom found outside of religious circles...
...worry about whether their nannies are smacking the kids while they’re at the office; instead they will constantly be reminded that they are wasting their Harvard degrees. Their working friends from college will assume they lead boring lives. They’ll be brushed off and seldom thanked for their hard work raising their children...
Safah is part of a seldom-discussed aspect of the epidemic of kidnappings in Iraq: sex trafficking. No one knows how many young women have been kidnapped and sold since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. The Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq, based in Baghdad, estimates from anecdotal evidence that more than 2,000 Iraqi women have gone missing in that period. A Western official in Baghdad who monitors the status of women in Iraq thinks that figure may be inflated but admits that sex trafficking, virtually nonexistent under Saddam, has become a serious issue. The collapse...
...impossible to settle the immigration problem without inciting emotions and stirring anger. There is no panacea available to Congress that will satisfy everyone. The influx of undocumented workers helps and burdens U.S. citizens, but the issue is so polarizing that Americans on both sides of the fence seldom seek compromise or consider the big picture. U.S. citizens who benefit from reduced prices at the supermarket also see their tax dollars strained to support overburdened hospitals, schools and social programs. The only reasonable solution is to pass a law that incorporates compassion with responsibility. It is too late to begin criminalizing...