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...Though Nowak's epic meltdown (and her termination by NASA) almost certainly hinged on more than her working-mom status, the case does underscore the arbitrariness of China's new policy. So does a 2005 study on reproductive health and spaceflight in the International Journal of Impotence Research, which reports that about 80% of the American female astronauts who came to NASA were not mothers. The report, which considers both genders, finds no evidence that short-duration spaceflight - missions of up to nine days - "has an adverse effect on the ability of astronauts to conceive and bear healthy children...
...profile picture through March 24," the participating Argentine users posted as their status update. The military junta that presided over the Dirty War against suspected leftists came to power via a coup d'etat on that date...
Greenwald and Mawn expressed different views about who is discriminated against under the status...
...insurance providers of the first resort, and an unfair legal burden on doctors. Substantial numbers of Republicans had always favored reform, even archconservatives: 20 years ago, the Heritage Foundation's Stuart Butler came up with a plan to provide universal coverage, paying for it by replacing the tax-exempt status of employer-provided health benefits with a system of progressive tax credits. In 1993 the Republicans, led by Senators John Chafee and Bob Dole, who never forgot that his life was saved by government health care, offered an alternative that many, including me, thought was better than the Clinton Administration...
...with satisfaction - that is, whether you are happier or not if you make more than your neighbor or if you make more than others in your profession - but that's the next step in the research. Money may not buy you love but it may be enough to purchase status - and a little bit of happiness...