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When my 11-year-old got her tetanus shot during her checkup last week, her pediatrician did not tell her that it was now safe to go dance barefoot on rusty nails. Which got me wondering about a recent battle in the culture wars, in which conservative groups were reported to be opposing a great medical breakthrough - the new cervical cancer vaccine - on the grounds that it might encourage kids to think that casual sex just got a little bit safer...
...Sprigg, who was in the meetings, came away impressed with Merck's handling of their questions. Its representatives, he said, "expressed sympathy with our concern that this not be distributed with an accompanying message that this makes it safe to have sex. They acknowledged the limits of the vaccine, that it does not target all strains of HPV, or any other sexually transmitted diseases." During public hearings on the vaccine held by the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in February, the Family Research Council representative applauded the vaccine, hoped that health care professionals would enforce the message...
Small wonder, then, that the students have started to mimic the left's rhetoric of victimhood. A prominent student conservative--Charles Mitchell of Pennsylvania's Bucknell University--urged conference attendees to return to their campuses and create "safe zones" for conservatives, who are, he said, "constantly under attack." Antifeminist Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys, darkly warned that Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues--a collection of sketches about women's sexual experiences that was performed on more than 600 campuses last year--has inspired "an army" of campus feminists whom she called "very elitist." Sommers told...
...Yorker was safe from Weegee's lens?not the grieving widow, the flirting husband, destitute children or drunks on the Bowery as they were bundled into a police wagon. And the Big Apple crime photographer named Usher Fellig, later anglicized to Arthur Fellig but internationally famous under his two-syllable pseudonym, is set to haunt the public again with his revealing and sometimes macabre images. "Unknown Weegee" will appear at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City from June 9 to Aug. 27. The exhibit is drawn from the ICP's collection...
...Sweden, Finland and the U.S. have built or are planning long-term storage vaults deep underground; former Prime Minister Bob Hawke has said that Australia, with "the safest geological formations in the world," should consider building similar facilities. Nuclear opponents say no form of storage will ever be truly safe...