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...primary breadwinners. They would be fathers as far as biology goes, but they wouldn't get much chance to be parents. "A lot of my friends who are men and have had families are now divorced," Stanford's Adamson admits. "When you ask them what happened, the vast majority will say, 'Well, I was never home. I was working all the time. I didn't pay enough attention to my family. I wish I had, but it's too late...
...implication is, 'I have to hurry up and have kids now or give up on ever having them,'" says Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women. "And that is not true for the vast majority of women." Gandy, 48, had her first child at 39. "It was a choice on my part, but in most ways it really wasn't. It's not like you can create out of whole cloth a partner you want to have a family with and the economic and emotional circumstances that allow you to be a good parent. So to put pressure...
...powerful FBI-sponsored law enforcement database. The NCIC, accessible to 650,000 federal state and local law enforcement officers, traditionally contains data on people wanted as fugitives, criminal histories, stolen cars and other property and missing persons. It fields as many as 3.3 million queries a day, the vast majority during routine traffic stops. While acknowledging that some people could end up on a the potential terrorist list by mistake, Justice Department and FBI officials argue that the risks to individual liberties must be balanced against the greater national interest in detecting violent extremists who have slipped across...
...play Robin Hood in reverse. The availability of new tax shelters, combined with lax enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has let the rich and dishonest evade their obligations and increase the burden on the American public. Without drastic reform, tax loopholes and outright evasion will create a vast paid subsidy for the wealthy—or, to put it another way, a huge hidden tax on everyone else...
...justified in toppling governments that harbor terrorists and making unwelcome military incursions into countries in order to hunt down alleged perpetrators—even if that means some civilians will be killed in the process—then Israel is also. Indeed, if we take into account that a vast majority of Palestinians support the suicide bombings, then so-called collateral casualties in Afghanistan, where most people were happy to see the Taliban toppled, are much more morally reprehensible than such casualties in Palestinian territory...