Word: validates
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...There are three ways that women and teenagers can take responsibility for a pregnancy: abortion, adoption or parenting. One option is not more responsible than the others. Each is a valid choice, as long as the chosen path is the best for the individual pregnant woman. And that is her decision to make. Kelli Conlin, President, National Institute for Reproductive Health, New York City...
...school. The reason for their truancy, however, is fear: "The kids are scared," says Dilek Turan, a psychology student who volunteers in Sulukule. "They don't want to go to school because they worry that when they come home, it will no longer be there." It's a valid fear: City authorities plan to demolish their homes as part of a controversial urban renewal project to tidy up Istanbul in time for its stint as 2010 European Cultural Capital...
...sparked by a proposal that accused the faculty of censorship. The motion, sponsored by anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, only talked about free speech to cover his agenda of criticizing pro-Israel bias at the University. Whether or not Matory’s points were valid, his motion was a waste of the Faculty’s time, and the debate that followed—which took up much of November’s as well as December’s Faculty meetings—sucked up time that could have been spent discussing more important...
...School Dean Larry D. Kramer said in a telephone interview Friday that the reforms were driven by growing faculty and student discontent over the existing grading system. “We had created a false sense of precision and drew distinctions among students that weren’t really valid,” he said. “The biggest desire was that we wanted people to pick classes based on what they wanted to learn and not on grades.” The decision—which was made last Wednesday—received strong support from the faculty...
...Hope may lie in the new Gen Ed program, whose requirements recognize that “empirical reasoning is not a discrete body of knowledge” but “a set of related conceptual skills that guide valid reasoning and decision-making...