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...position that cuts in prevention programs are currently more appropriate than cuts in services to those who need them most. While we understand that prevention programs can ultimately save money by warding off future health crises, the reality is that something must be cut, and the weak should not be the first to be abandoned. Massachusetts should never deny health care to those who need it in the place of producing a public service announcement...
...Dehdadi since then. Others have fled into the frozen mountains rather than live in a war zone. Without food or water, many have surely perished. Now, with the Taliban's retreat, the way to better-supplied camps near Pakistan is open--but many of the refugees are too weak and poor to make it. "A lot of them are going to die," says Stephan Goetghebuer of Medecins sans Frontieres. "The children and the old first, then the others...
...debate about globalization. Free movement of capital has made the nation state untenable. And we don't have international institutions that will help people through these huge transitions. We have organizations that are strong in finance and trade, but for labor, the environment and health we have very weak international regimes. Now people are saying, ?It's not just the economy, stupid...
...evidence needed for conversations to be monitored at all. Rather than the probable cause required by the 4th Amendment, the attorney general need merely “certify” that the person in custody might be attempting to communicate to others about a future terrorist plot. Similarly weak grounds would suffice for a prosecutor to listen to the recordings and use them as a basis for a fishing expedition into the possible wrongdoings of the person in custody and anybody implicated in the conversations...
...public school system espouses only a diluted version of secular humanism and a weak idea of tolerance. It has become a moral vacuum. Inspiring teachers are prohibited from discussing their moral or religious convictions with their students, and some students absorb this sour nihilism in dangerous ways. Recently, four teenagers in the Boston area were arrested for plotting a sick, heartless killing spree in their high school. Mass murders, gang activity and violence in public schools are now all too common. When will we learn that students in schools without positive moral aspirations will sink into festering amorality, alienation...