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...Sexual orientation shouldn't be a barrier to participation in the public sphere," says Polis, who has received encouragement from gays and lesbians from around the country. "It's a difficult issue for my opponents to try to use against me overtly without a backlash," he says, "but there have been some jabs, insinuations and whisper campaigns...
...picking apart of Yugoslavia, particularly the splitting off of Kosovo from Serbia, further fueled Russian resentment and humiliation. It reminded Russia how the U.S. had undermined it in the Middle East, peeling off Egypt, South Yemen, Iraq and Syria from its sphere of influence over the decades. But more than anything else, Russia would never forget that it was Washington that created the Sunni jihadist Frankenstein in Afghanistan. That was an arrow pointed straight at the heart of Russia. With Muslims making up 10% to 15% of Russia's population, the Afghan-born jihad became an existential threat to Russia...
...protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.'' Rejecting Pennsylvania's argument that the regulations were in the state's justifiable interest, Blackmun concluded in what reads like a manifesto: ''Our cases long have recognized that the Constitution embodies a promise that a certain private sphere of individual liberty will be kept largely beyond the reach of government. That promise extends to women as well as to men. Few decisions are more personal and intimate, more properly private, or more basic to individual dignity and autonomy than a woman's decision . . . whether to end her pregnancy...
When I hauled my teenage self up to the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal, what I wanted most to see was the giant geodesic dome--actually more like a huge, transparent sphere--that Buckminster Fuller, the famous advance man for the future, had designed to serve as the U.S. pavilion. Once you got inside, there wasn't much to look at, but that didn't matter. The dome itself was the thing, a smashing image of the U.S. claim on tomorrow...
...will ban adult content from official applications, just as it has restricted adult content in the podcast section of the Apple store. But it can't prevent customers from accessing porn through the device's browser. Indeed, the new iPhone may eventually propel mobile porn deeper into the sphere of interactivity. Blogger Jason Swifter has already imagined one such scenario. "I wish there was an application that allowed you to undress people by dragging your fingers across the screen and literally dragging it off," he wrote on iPhonematters.com. Apple says that more than 250,000 programming kits have been downloaded...