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...family name acquired international renown in 1991, when his uncle was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations. Then came ignominy. Denounced as divisive and incompetent by the U.S. and other Western nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali became the first Secretary-General not to be re-elected for a second term...
...mentally challenged are numerous. Perhaps the greatest worry is that the state will cut the promised funding per client, leaving families to foot the bill. Institutions like Fairview, flawed though they sometimes are, are often necessary for care of the lowest-functioning or violently autistic. The seemingly benign term community care, when it is invoked by conservative state representatives in domed capitols, is too often a code word for budget-cutting. The concept of moving the autistic into loving group homes where they will be taught or looked after is Edenic but inadequate to society's needs. For the high...
...Indeed, a study published in the December Journal of Marriage and Family found that a man's involvement in his partner's pregnancy - trips to the doctor, childbirth classes, etc. - was the best way to secure his long-term dedication. Lead author Natasha Cabrera of the University of Maryland says, "It is the decision that couples make to strengthen commitment and move in together that is important, rather than marital status...
...course, unmarriage isn't a guarantee of love everlasting any more than marriage is. According to Rutgers University's National Marriage Project, cohabiting couples are at least twice as likely to break up as married couples are. Long term, notes Stephanie Coontz, a professor of history and family studies at Washington's Evergreen State College, unmarriage works only if both people are equally committed to the lack of legal commitment. If they're not, to borrow a phrase from Beyoncé: If you like it, then you should have put a ring...
Iran insists its nuclear intentions are confined to generating electricity, but the concern of the U.S. and its allies is that the infrastructure of a civilian nuclear program - particularly uranium enrichment - puts a nuclear weapon within short-term reach should Iran decide to assemble one. (Israel and U.S. believe that Iran has not yet taken such a decision, and to do so it would have to expel the international inspectors that currently monitor its enrichment facility at Natanz. That's because the uranium already enriched there would have to be reprocessed to a far higher degree of enrichment to create...