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While some Iowans have accepted the decision with pride or a live-and-let-live shrug, others have reacted with dismay or anger. Opponents are pushing for a vote to amend the Iowa Constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. The petition process generally takes three years. ("That's why we did this right away - while we can," says Woodward-Young.) While the passionate rallies and television commercials - pro and con - have slowed, some Iowans fear attitudes are hardening and the discussion is coarsening, judging from the continuing battle being waged on local newspaper opinion...
...hope that this knowledge will be enriching for your life as well. Here’s an added bonus: inserting the phrase, “yo it’s all in the game” into your conversations, accompanied by a ruggedly philosophical facial expression and an easy shrug of the shoulders, will make you seem effortlessly cool. Try it right now! See? Pretty sweet. No need to thank me.Navigating the tricky waters of the Harv can be tough. It’s for sure got its ups and downs, baby, its strikes and gutters. You win some...
...This is the question that has health officials from Geneva to Washington puzzled. In Mexico, swine flu has caused severe respiratory disease in a number of patients - and even more worryingly, has killed the sort of young and healthy people who can normally shrug off the flu. (Fueling such concerns is the fact that similar age groups died in unusually high numbers during the 1918 pandemic.) Yet the cases in the U.S. have all been mild and likely wouldn't have even garnered much attention if doctors hadn't begun actively looking for swine flu in recent days. "What...
...exhaustion. “You were here for the Oscars last year, remember? We ordered Indian take-out. And besides, I see your dad a lot at the Y. He’s always very friendly. Hey, congratulations, he says you got into…”I shrug and tremble a little. “Yeah, I’m pretty excited. You never know, right, you just have to send in your application and see. Congratulations to Andrew too, none too shabby that he…”She nods. “He seems excited...
There are few who still shrug off HIV and AIDS as exotic calamities that befall only specific segments of the world's population. But many of us are probably oblivious to just how badly the virus is ravaging our nation's capital. According to a city report, 3% of Washington, D.C., residents suffer from HIV or AIDS - a figure that ranks as the highest in the nation and far outstrips the 1% benchmark at which a health issue becomes a "generalized and severe" epidemic. The district's HIV/AIDS administration director, Shannon Hader, couched the severity of the problem in stark...