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...called this rationale “novel,” as the FDA consistently uses the behavior of older adolescents to predict the behavior of younger adolescents when making decisions concerning teenage use of drugs. While the FDA claims to be unconvinced by the drug studies, 39 other countries??including the United Kingdom, Canada, and India—have deemed this drug safe for over-the-counter sales. There is also an important distinction to be made: Plan B is not abortion; the FDA itself designated Plan B as contraception. According to Planned Parenthood, “Experts...
...feel there’s some injustice there, since we [are] chock-full of people at Harvard, and I’m surprised that more of them are not here.”Harvard still fared better than other institutions and countries??even whole continents.“Perhaps Harvard students didn’t vote,” said William J. Dobson, managing editor of FP. “I mean, Harvard did better than Europe, so in some respects I don’t feel badly for Harvard.”Although voters were self-selected...
Objectively, Iran’s claim that it needs nuclear power just doesn’t make sense. The nation is swimming in fossil fuels: Iran is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries??s second largest oil producer (it holds ten percent of the world’s proven oil reserves) and the world’s second largest natural gas reserve. Yet Iran has extremely limited deposits of uranium—producing energy via nuclear means makes far less financial sense than producing it by conventional means...
Currently, seven countries are declared nuclear powers and several other countries??including North Korea—are likely nuclear powers. And just the other day, Iran announced that it is restarting its nuclear program (although Iran insists it is for peaceful purposes...
While the threat of some weapon being deployed is always present, there are enough safeguards in most countries to make a preemptive strike highly unlikely. However, there are some countries??like North Korea and Iran—which evade watchdogs like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The only way this may change is with global pressure, which cannot build when the threat of nuclear weapons is so far from the minds of the general public...