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...because his values went against my own. He seemed a backwards man, caught in a time long since passed and trying to enforce a morality on a world no longer willing to accept it. I criticized his seemingly naïve unawareness that his opposition to birth control could spread pain in a world with dangerous diseases and unwanted children. His stance against abortion seemed to offend human rights. I viewed his refusal to consider female priests as sexism, thinly veiled by Scripture and Church traditions. I thought his refusal to welcome homosexuals into the sacrament of marriage...
Children who play together share more than toys; they also share germs. The potentially dangerous bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae may spread more rapidly among children who attend day-care, according to a recent study conducted by Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers...
...paper published in this month’s American Journal of Epidemiology listed community-level risk factors for the spread of S. pneumoniae, which included household size, socioeconomic status, and attendance at day-care facilities...
...while the Dec. 26 earthquake ruptured the earth in a line that extended more than 1,100 km to the north of its epicenter, the force of the March 28 temblor broke in the opposite direction, rupturing a 400 km stretch of seafloor to the southeast. Because its energy spread in a new direction and because of its magnitude, last week's quake could be an independent event, albeit one that was heavily influenced by the Dec. 26 earthquake...
...rink at the Whittemore Center played into the hands of the Gophers, who spread the ice with its superior team speed and held the puck for the majority of the night...