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...religious and environmental organizations, McKibben called upon audience members to participate in International Climate Day on Oct. 24, when communities across the world will publicly demonstrate their support for the “350” movement. The 350 movement aims to influence policy-makers to adopt a global standard of 350 parts per million carbon at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held this December in Copenhagen. This is the level necessary to avoid catastrophic warming according to NASA climate experts, McKibben said...
Playing in the midst of fierce winds at Ohiri Field on a cold Saturday morning, the Harvard women’s soccer team needed more than the standard 90 minutes of play to come away with its fifth-straight win and remain undefeated in Ivy League play, as the Crimson (6-5-1, 3-0 Ivy) defeated Brown (4-7, 1-3) in overtime...
...Most of those seem pretty standard, but “Beauty Associate”? What does that even mean? See our musings after the jump...
...paid for out of a separate pool - would constitute federal funding of abortion because some consumers would purchase those health plans using government subsidies. This fungibility argument shifted the issue from direct federal funding of abortion to indirect funding. And eliminating indirect funding of abortion is a nearly impossible standard to meet. Taxpayers already subsidize abortions through the tax break given to employers for sponsoring company-insurance plans, and technically any employer that receives a government grant - say, for laboratory research - has a fungibility issue if it uses an insurance plan that includes abortion coverage...
...Administration and congressional Democrats can't find a way to appease the USCCB - and their appetite for compromise may be limited given the sense that the standard has shifted - the bishops could find themselves openly opposing a cause they have long championed. If that happens, they will have themselves to blame as much as anyone else...