Word: validating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before the video camera rolls at a shoot, adult performers present each other with identification and valid--less than 90-day-old--HIV tests to prove that neither performer carries the virus. The exchange is routine and ritualistic, like a coin toss before a football game. I was watching and noticed that Marylin Star's driver's license read Kathryn Akahoshi, prompting me to ask why this blond had a Japanese name. She had become a stripper in Calgary while still a teenager, hitting Los Angeles in the mid-'90s to enter the adult-video business and then diving into...
...certainly valid to wonder whether this procedure has the potential to foster some sort of apathy towards patients," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "But it's difficult to strike a balance between the need to teach residents and interns the procedures they need to know to save people's lives with the need to provide patients with unwavering comfort of care, right to life, empathy and respect." These two positions are neatly represented in Thursday's report; of 234 residents and interns interviewed, two-thirds felt the tube-threading procedure should not be performed. The remaining doctors disagreed...
...have called the "don't ask, don't tell" policy a failure and promise to allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military if they are elected. While some discomfort among close-minded people may initially arise, the overall effect will promote dialogue and understanding. Discomfort is not a valid justification for discrimination and prejudice. The current policy only causes witch-hunts and limits individuals' free expression. Although Private Winchell can never return, this much-needed, long-awaited change in military policy can prevent such atrocities from occurring in the future...
...House system is a wonderful system. Its goal, to make smaller communities within a large university, is both effective and admirable. The construction of a student center was rejected, in large part, because it had the potential to draw away from House community. This is a valid rationale for its rejection...
...persecution to have someone challenge your views. It is persecution when your very right to exist is constantly being called into question. We cannot begin any equitable dialogue until those on the other side of the table acknowledge the insidious reality of homophobia and accept that there are no valid grounds, religious, personal or "moral," to question the validity of our existence. To suggest otherwise is to come out as a bigot...