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...aids, even more modest proficiency goals may exceed the grasp of many struggling schools. Though the intense recession has threatened the amount of funding available to public services, it is still vital that we support our school system. The proper training of our nation’s youth will safeguard our future and provide a bulwark of human capital against future economic downturns. The money we spend today on education will pay dividends over a lifetime...
...Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading provider of abortion services, used this same slogan in her speech at the Democratic National Convention in August. Yet, rather than focusing on the limited options women possess after giving birth, Richards highlighted the preventative measures that safeguard women from having to make difficult choices in the first place. Not surprisingly, the FFL refuses to opine on whether or not contraception should be legal. On the scant occasion when the group has addressed the issue of birth control, it has only perpetuated misconceptions about the side effects...
That is why the Arctic looks so enticing. Energy experts say the Arctic's continental shelf may contain up to a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and natural gas. "The use of these energy reserves is a safeguard for Russia's energy security," Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said. "It is our duty to our descendants. We have to ensure the long-term national interests of Russia in the Arctic." Thus, the $5.4 billion - under terms more favorable than Moscow has extended to recapitalize one of its own major banks - seems a modest price to pay. Even if ordinary...
...very serious turn towards free markets and competition, which has made people more comfortable in trusting business and economic forces," says Jacques Bille, a senior civil servant and former political adviser. "But when trouble arises, that French individual goes into collective mode and expects the state to intervene and safeguard stability. That attitude has differentiated us starkly [from the Americans], until...
...course, the country still has more growing up to do. The administration has failed to safeguard minority religious rights. Although the economy has grown at around 5.5% annually over the past five years, millions of Indonesians struggle to feed themselves. Yet for a nation with more than 17,500 islands and hundreds of ethnicities, Indonesia is holding together just fine and has made the transition from dictatorship to viable democracy in less than a generation. Nothing funny about that...