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...problem is that no one can prove what complex chemistry of cause and effect, culture and calculation, explains the falling rates - and for people who have devoted their lives to this issue, there's no glory in achieving one's ends if the means are anathema. Pro-choice groups credit comprehensive sex education and access to contraception, strategies that social conservatives often resist. Pro-lifers credit campaigns to tighten laws controlling access to abortion and to warn women about abortion's risks - which the other side deplores...
...including those that ended in miscarriage) ended in abortion, down from 30.4% in 1983. That would seem to be evidence that the quiet campaign for women's hearts and minds, conducted in thousands of crisis pregnancy centers around the country, on billboards, phone banks and websites, is having an effect, while the combination of tighter access, waiting periods and parental notification laws invite - or force - women to think twice about terminating a pregnancy...
...evaluation, as a model of generating high participation. Response rates at the school top 80 percent, according to the Yale registar’s office.Professors said they find themselves unable to depend on the ratings as much as they would like.“It was more effective in the past when the number of students who filled it out was higher,” said Robert A. Lue, executive director of undergraduate education in molecular and cellular biology. “Despite pleading e-mails...we’re only seeing 60 percent of the class. What 60 percent...
...That Republicans are even talking about the economy's woes at all is a relatively new development. As recently as October, in their debate in Dearborn, Mich., the candidates were content to point to positive job-growth numbers and downplay any problems as being the effect of local conditions that could be solved with the standard-issue G.O.P. economic prescriptions of tax cuts and less regulation...
...with us," he says. "It's astonishing to me when I hear the people in our party just act as if the economy is doing superb, and there's no issue to worry about. Too many Americans potentially could go into foreclosure on their homes. That has a rippling effect on the economy." Huckabee's prescriptions for giving the economy a quick boost, however, are hardly detailed or groundbreaking. The most he has done is issue a set of five principles that he calls "family, fed, fight, fuel, fair" and that sum up positions he had previously taken...