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...abortion rate fell 9% in five years, to 19.4 abortions for every 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44; the 1.2 million abortions performed in 2005 numbered 25% fewer than the high of 1.6 million in 1990. That would seem to be good news, whether you view abortion as an evil, or a necessary evil, or a routine medical procedure no more morally troubling than a tooth extraction...
...distant third - place finisher Fred Thompson, who may have siphoned off some of Huckabee's evangelical support in conservative counties. Otherwise, exit polling showed McCain and Huckabee in a dead heat for the heart of the GOP, with roughly the same amount of support from those with a positive view of the Bush administration, those without a college education and self - identified Republicans...
...weigh in. ‘PATHETIC’ PARTICIPATIONStudent participation has been “pathetic,” according to James D. Wilkinson ’65, the director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.Pilbeam pointed to Yale, where undergraduates are not allowed to view grades online until they fill out an evaluation, as a model of generating high participation. Response rates at the school top 80 percent, according to the Yale registar’s office.Professors said they find themselves unable to depend on the ratings as much as they would like...
...international crisis. "Anytime something happens, the jihadis have the capability of getting their side online within a few hours," said David Michaelis, director of current affairs for the San Francisco-based LinkTV, and a Forum participant. "We have to be able to answer, to get a moderate point of view up, just as quickly." Hameed Haroon, CEO of the Pakistani media group, Dawn Publications, came out of the media workshop bursting with ideas. "It needs to be like a superblog, a super-Google," he says. "A place that unites a survival guide for reporters going into conflict zones, with expertise...
Dalia Mogahed, Executive Director of the Gallup Organization's Center for Muslim Studies, says she was encouraged by the many Forum experts' view of religion as a neutral tool, rather than a force inherently good or evil. "People here understand that blaming religion for conflict is like blaming the gun for shooting someone," she says. Mogahed also hailed the initiatives launched by Noor and Sheikha Moza. But she couldn't help wondering about something that might undermine the Alliance's high-minded efforts. "I haven't seen a single American policy-maker here," she says. "Their lack of engagement, their...