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...vaccinated before they are sexually active, particularly as HPV can be spread through skin-to-skin contact and not just intercourse. It is illogical to suggest that children and young adults will be unaware of other risks of sexual activity just because they have the HPV vaccine.The most valid criticism of the vaccine is the fear of yet undiscovered side effects. While that is always a risk with new medications and vaccines, the HPV vaccine, developed in the 1990s, has been extensively tested and found to be safe. Both the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a board appointed...
...Governor Sarah Palin as the convention’s focus was a directional error. Naturally, one would expect that the convention—or much of the Republican campaign for that matter—would emphasize McCain’s comparative advantage over Obama. Indeed, this comparison has many valid discussion points; differences in tax and foreign policy, for example, continue to define the political debate. Ironically, though, Republicans used the convention mainly to introduce and display their vice presidential candidate, Governor Palin, thus comparing her against the focus of the Democratic National Convention, Senator Barack Obama...
Well, here's the deal: small towns have their own value systems, and in this situation those values are a lot more valid than the dispassionate, pushy inquisitiveness that political journalism encourages...
...have just now completed the month of August, which is the cruelest month for Democrats, the month when Republicans go for the jugular, trotting out arguments - some valid, most scurrilous - that paint their Democratic rivals as weak, élite or unpatriotic. This is a relatively new phenomenon in American politics, the Bush family's gift to the process. Ronald Reagan never staged an ugly August. He attacked his opponents, but on the high ground of policy. His most famous advertising gambit was a balm: "Morning in America," a series of ads filled with gorgeous American images that didn't even...
...make the Mummy sequel, filmmakers had to submit scripts to the Chinese state co-producers. Western companies that embrace freedom of information on this side of the Pacific have acceded to Chinese censorship: Microsoft, Yahoo!, even Google--whose slogan, "Don't be evil," turned out not to be valid worldwide...