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...next week, aides say, Bush may delight conservatives by signing an order that would withhold funding from overseas agencies that even discuss abortion with patients. Sources tell TIME that the so-called Mexico City provision, named for the city where Ronald Reagan first discussed the prohibition, was the topic of a memo last week from Secretary of State Colin Powell to the White House, outlining the options for carrying out this order. Powell, who is pro-choice, recommended no specific course of action. Bush is evaluating a Clinton order that prohibits discrimination against homosexuals in federal jobs, but conservatives doubt...
...democratic environmentalism has been well served under Bill Clinton's presidency. The emergence of the Environmental Justice movement in the early 1990s, which arose because of disturbingly disproportionate pollution in areas inhabited by those at a political or economic disadvantage, prompted Clinton to sign an executive order on the topic in 1994, and for the EPA to focus on these issues and formulate new policies during his first term of office. Moreover, Clinton has sought to protect more land from development than any other president, as well and he signed numerous bills to increase the effectiveness of environmental standards...
...Since I'm on the topic, I'm just going to come right out and say it: I love my gun. I know I'm bad; I know that as a thinking person I'm supposed to be repulsed by tools of violence and sense the evil that lurks at the very core of all firearms, but that is not the case. I love it and there is no denyin...
...said union representatives had brought up concerns about members coming down with cancer and breathing problems during prolonged labor negotiations in 1999, and alleged that Moisson did not adequately follow through on conversations on the topic with Union Trustee Dan Meagher, who subsequently wrote the letter to Cuno. Meagher declined to comment...
...spending. Drugs, naturally, are at the top of the hell list--they kill, they addle, they lie at the heart of a vast criminal enterprise, and the feckless "war" against them mostly wastes billions of public dollars every year. Traffic is the epic of our despair on this topic, an attempt to gather all the strands of the issue in one place and implicitly show how they entangle people at every level of society...