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...other STDs like human papillomavirus later in life, leaving female partners more likely to get cervical cancer. The cost of prevention, proponents say, is the brief trauma of the procedure. Says Edgar Schoen, former pediatrics chief at Kaiser Permanente, who led the 1989 American Association of Pediatrics circumcision task force, which came out neutral on cutting: "A newborn baby is programmed for stress and recovers quickly." Opponents, on the other hand, say foreskin-related afflictions are rare, condoms block STDs, and circumcision has its risks. Michelle Richardson, of Fort Worth, Texas, says her 5-year-old has two genital disorders...
...sophomore year, when some progressive comrades joined various Finals Clubs with the (admittedly only half-hearted) intention of working on them from within. Needless to say, despite the intervening years, the clubs remain unaffected, still all-too-prominent examples of unnecessary, self-important exclusivity. Instead of entrusting the task of social change to an especially charismatic individual then, we must emphasize the necessarily collective character of any progressive project. Our goal being the radical reworking of the system along more directly democratic lines, it makes minimal sense to suspend those principles temporarily in order to implement them ultimately. Audre Lorde?...
...first task was to design a machine that would allow kids to connect wirelessly to the Internet without an outside source of electricity, and that would be rugged enough to function in often harsh conditions. Prototypes of the laptop (dubbed XO) - with built-in video and audio, a hand-crank and low wattage requirements - are getting high marks from technology reviewers. Some 8,000 units are up and running in pilot villages from Cambodia to Uruguay. But perhaps an even more difficult task was to generate enough mass interest in the project to allow the computer to be produced...
...government plan to partially privatize the national train company, Deutsche-Bahn, next year in a policy that has thrown the multibillion-euro deal into question. Merkel even came in for criticism from her own foreign minister, Frank Walter Steinmeier, a senior SPD leader, who took her to task for failing to use back channels effectively to promote her human rights agenda in China and Russia...
...It’s a tough time for journalism,” she said in the 2007 Theodore H. White Lecture. “But I don’t worry too much about journalism’s future.” Political reporters take on the crucial task of creating a narrative that gives Americans a clearer sense of how well the government is doing its job, she said, and the importance of that charge will not wane, even as new forms of delivery emerge. “At a time when journalism is considered an endangered species...