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...subsidize religious academies and home schooling, the Christian Coalition will be very active on local school boards, where it often faces off against the teachers' unions on curriculum and rules. Training materials for a seminar the Coalition ran last year in Atlanta state that the "strategy must be to weaken the teacher unions financially. Any success in achieving this objective will facilitate virtually all conservative objectives, educational and noneducational...
...same synergies that empower microbes also weaken our defenses against them. Heat, increased ultraviolet radiation resulting from ozone depletion, and pollutants like chlorinated hydrocarbons all suppress the disease-battling immune systems--both for humans and for other animals. Epstein, who is one of the principal authors of the upcoming WHO study, notes that in recent years variants of the class of viruses that includes measles have killed seals in the North Sea, lions in the Serengeti and horses in Australia--three very different animals widely scattered around the globe...
...they were to hold talks, filled with the usual goodwill and cultural misunderstandings, they might actually agree for several precious minutes before someone or other stormed out, to wit and as follows: if gay marriages seem to weaken the institution of marriage as a whole, that's bad. But if they give gays a recognized place in society, that's probably good. You can't very well accuse gays of acting promiscuously in bathhouses if you won't offer them anyplace else...
...trap herself. While advocating the establishment of a forum solely for Puerto Rican students, she also says, "As Latinos we are divided among Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, etc., and as Puerto Ricans we align ourselves as either from the island or the 'mainland.'...By creating divisions we can only weaken ourselves." She indicates that division is something we must avoid. Doesn't Santini see that the establishment of yet another ethnic organization on the Harvard campus for yet another Latino group would only exacerbate this division...
...million in prospective guarantees. It also means the U.S. will vote against $1.3 billion in Colombian loan requests to the World Bank. About $30 million in anti-narcotics and humanitarian aid will not be affected. Some members of the administration had argued against the sanctions and said they would weaken an already shaky Colombian economy. But charges that Colombian President Ernesto Samper's government has been influenced by the Cali drug cartel led Clinton to decide for the sanctions...