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...major question now is not whether Americans will appreciate Clinton's specific changes, but rather whether change under a Clinton administration can occur swiftly enough to soothe the discontented American electorate. People will care less about the specific benefit they receive than the mere fact that they are being offered something new and different. Clinton will shower social and fiscal policy changes upon the American people, and if he begins the process immediately upon entering office, and continues to do so consistently, his presidency will be deemed a success...
...About 1 million Americans, nearly half of them women, have cardiovascular disease. Of the approximately half a million fatal heart attacks in the U.S. every year, 247,000 occur in women...
...widespread misconception that cardiovascular disease is essentially a man's problem stems largely from the fact that heart attacks are rare among pre-menopausal females. Of the quarter of a million fatal heart attacks suffered annually among women, only 6,000 occur in those under the age of 65. Coronary heart disease in women "doesn't take off until menopause," says Dr. Mary-Ann Malloy, a cardiologist at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, "and in the past a woman's life expectancy didn't extend much longer than that...
Since sex between adults is only illegal (or should only be illegal) in cases where one party does not want it to occur (or is incapable of making a decision), we believe that a person is only criminally liable for sexual conduct if that person had reason to know that the other party objected to it or was unable to offer an objection...
Practical justification for CLUH's definition emerges from an analysis of the four basic conditions under which sex can occur (we are assuming cases where no intimidation, coercion, etc. occurs, as such situations constitute rape under both our definition and that of the Task Force): 1. Neither party asks for or expresses consent, and neither dissents. 2. At least one party asks for consent and does not receive an answer. 3. Both parties ask for and receive consent. 4. At least one party dissents...