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...that view, she is also typical of her peers. While their parents may have reflexively worn the pro-choice or pro-life label, the children of the post-Roe generation have more nuanced views on the issue. As a group, they tend to be more conservative about it. In a poll published last fall by the Survey Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, 44% of 15-to 22-year-olds approved of placing some restrictions on abortion, while just 34% of those ages 27 to 59 did. Abortion-rights advocates are no more encouraged by their own data...
Opponents and supporters of affirmative action actually tend to agree that there is something bad, generally called quotas, and something good, generally called something like diversity. Their argument is about where you draw the line. Bush calls the Michigan 20-point bonus a quota, and his critics insist that it is not. But both sides are wrong. If your sole measure of the success of any arrangement is whether it increases the representation of certain minorities, then it doesn't really matter what procedure you use to achieve that result: some people are getting something desirable because of their race...
...terms of cost, Harris said the natural gas vehicles tend to cost about $5,500 more than their gasoline-powered counterparts, but with a combination of incentives from the U.S. Department of Energy, Ford and Key Span, the cost would balance...
ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR From lying and bullying to vandalism and homicide. More prevalent in boys, who tend to inflict physical harm on others...
...sort of mental hypochondria. We give up on making fine distinctions and simply check ALL OF THE ABOVE. "It can be like medical student's disease," says Wilson, "where we think we have every new disorder." Evidence for this, he says, can be found in the fact that disorders tend to vary over different cultures and over time. In Freud's day, hysteria was all the rage--a problem experienced mostly by women, who formed the bulk of Freud's clientele. Nowadays this diagnosis is rare. A doctor who ventures it risks getting slapped...