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...also on Gates' sheet was a specific strategy: to first strengthen the humanities end of the department before moving on to the social sciences...
...rite, it is Dr. David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City. Starting in the early 1990s, he and others focused on the very first stages of HIV infection, hoping to learn what the body does right in fighting the virus and how to strengthen that response. What Ho and his colleagues have learned has fundamentally changed the way scientists think about...
When the Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, they did so with 72 first-time Representatives and nine new Senators. In 1996, though eight seats were still contested well over a week after Election Day, it is clear that the G.O.P. will maintain control--and even strengthen its Senate majority--in the 105th Congress. Here are the assured newcomers: 38 Democrats and 31 Republicans in the House, eight Republicans and seven Democrats in the Senate...
There must be a reason why Coats believes marriage is an institution we should strengthen. If the reason is that having two people legally bound to each other and in a monogamous relationship is healthy, then it would not matter if the two people involved were of the same sex. Therefore Sens. Coats, Byrd and company must have another reason for wanting the institution of marriage to become stronger...
...that concept any more preposterous than denying homosexuals their right to join with someone they love? Through all the jargon, the only reason homosexual marriages will not be recognized is that America is intensely homophobic. The irony is that by turning an irrational homophobia into policy, set forth to "strengthen that institution," the government only succeeds in weakening the institution. For example, by discouraging homosexual men from marrying, the government is ipso facto discouraging monogamous, meaningful relationships. It is sending a message that what it has deemed "aberrant behavior" is of no value and thus homosexuals themselves have no worth...