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...place as any to study the anatomy and evolution of attitudes about abortion. About half of American women will face an unplanned pregnancy, according to the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute, and at current rates more than one-third will have an abortion by the time they are 45. Since Roe v. Wade legalized the procedure in 1973, no other issue has so contorted U.S. politics or confounded values. When does life begin? Who should decide? And is there anything that can be agreed on to make the hard choices less painful? Much of the antiabortion movement remains focused on changing laws...
...would love to say that Valentine’s Day spoils the rest of the month, we’re talking about February: impossibly dark, inexplicably short, and really freaking cold. Let’s face it: God, not cupid, ruined February for me. So really, cheers to V-Day. I have absolutely nothing against...
...years in co-ed school were filled with some of the characteristic V-Day scarring. In first grade, the 100th day of school fell on Valentine’s Day and I remember having to put 100 heart stickers on the outside of a brown paper bag under duress. That was horrendous...
...liaisons occur, the pressure’s off, and I was free to revel in the indulgences of this pointless holiday regardless of whether or not I was “attached.” Once I set that precedent, it was hard to go back into being a V-Day hater. Since then, I have spent Valentine’s Day with boyfriends and without boyfriends, and I think that spending it “alone” is just as fun as spending it with someone I’m dating. Especially in college—where...
...quantum-mechanical magic trick” by finding a way to stop a pulse of light in one part of space and make it reappear two tenths of a millimeter away, according to researchers at the University’s Hau Laboratory. Led by Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Lene V. Hau, the experiment involved firing lasers through two clouds of sodium atoms cooled to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero. At such cold temperatures the atoms’ motions are virtually halted, and they begin to behave more like waves than particles. Featured...