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...Court, Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts, seemed skeptical of such open-ended social engineering. And Justice Anthony Kennedy, who could be the swing vote in this case, worried about the Supreme Court letting a school district that is no longer under court supervision use skin color as a basis for student assignment. Such a precedent, he said, "takes us on a very perilous course...
...persists, and with it a reluctance among many districts to switch to a neighborhood school system. Seattle and Jefferson County both allow parents to apply for their choice of school, and the vast majority of parents in these districts get what they want. But some don't. And since skin color is one of several factors - including which school the child's siblings attend and how close the family lives to a particular school - that determine how students are deployed across these districts, the question before the Court is whether schools can take race into consideration or whether the Equal...
...living in Florida," Gordon said. The lawyer representing the school district did not challenge Meredith's standing to represent all parents of Jefferson County students. Instead, he used Meredith to counter the Solicitor General's claim that the students there get trapped in a particular school because of their skin color. Although Meredith's transfer request was not granted the first time around, her son got into her school of choice as a second-grader. Regardless of where Meredith's son ended up, Gordon wrapped up his argument with a description of the Equal Protection Clause. "That's on neutral...
...Across town in the low-income area of El Valle, Gladys Garcia is thrilled with the Chavez government for a different reason. After noticing unusual lesions on her skin - and being denied treatment by a private hospital because she couldn't pay - Garcia is now getting attention at a free government-sponsored health care clinic. The program - called Barrio Adentro, Spanish for "inside the neighborhood" - brings tens of thousands of Cuban doctors to work in Venezuela in exchange for sending Venezuelan oil to Cuba under preferential terms. Since 2003, thousands of redbrick clinics have sprung up across the country, giving...
...cancer—and so could the skinless chicken served in dining halls. Men and women who eat bacon five times a week or more have a 59-percent-higher likelihood of developing bladder cancer than those who never eat bacon. Consuming, with similar regularity, chicken cooked with the skin taken off makes one 52 percent more likely to develop the disease, according to the study, published in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. There are at least 10 chicken dishes on the menu between today and Monday, according to the Web site...