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		<title>Inconceivable!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/04/inconceivable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is fertility a health issue or a lifestyle choice? This month a health care refom advisory panel will meet to consider whether contraception should be offered free of charge as a form of preventative medicine, the AP reports. Healthcare reform of course poses many questions concerning how medical services are paid for and delivered. But, [...]


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		<title>It’s a woman’s world –and much more- in Iceland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that the World Economic Forum has found Iceland to be the country with the greatest parity between the genders. Out of curiosity, I decided to take a look at Iceland’s fertility rates to see if gender equality came at the expense of large families.  It does not.  In fact, according to John [...]


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		<title>Clotheslined!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should people be allowed to hang their laundry out to dry? The BBC has an amusing perspective on a trend in the United States toward foregoing the use of mechanical driers in favor of drying clothes on the line. Outdoor clothesline drying is prohibited by many landlords and community associations on the basis that it [...]


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		<title>Fat stamps?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/07/fat-stamps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can we tell food stamp recipients what to eat? Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City &#8211; noted for his interest in public health &#8211; has issued a request to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow the city to bar the use of food stamps to purchase sugared drinks as a way to combat [...]


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		<title>Guest Post: The dignity of the prostitute</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/06/guest-post-the-dignity-of-the-prostitute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Human dignity&#8221; demands that we must (never) legalize prostitution Last week, a judge in Canada’s largest province struck down the country’s federal laws criminalizing prostitution.  Judge Susan Himel of the Ontario Superior Court ruled that prohibitions on prostitution infringed Canadians’ constitutional rights to freedom of expression and to security of the person.  If the decision [...]


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		<title>Ballad of an obese man</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/06/ballad-of-an-obese-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberalism, free choice, and Happy Meals It has been reported that the city of San Francisco is considering an ordinance that would ban toys in kids meals unless the meals contain fruit and vegetable portions and limits calories.  While the proposed ban applies to all restaurants, it is targeted specifically at McDonald’s and their infamous [...]


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		<title>The loss of innocence is more than a literary trope</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/28/the-loss-of-innocence-is-more-than-a-literary-trope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to debates over public school library blacklists, the BBC poses the question, “should parents have the power to ban school texts?” The complaints the BBC article addresses are mostly about children’s exposure to sexuality. Some of the books in question are literary classics, though most are staples of pop culture like the Twilight [...]


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		<title>Honesty is the best policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sexual taboos lead the way to hypocrisy and tragedy CNN reports that Bishop Eddie Long, Baptist church leader and staunch opponent of gay marriage, will defend himself from allegations of sexual assault on younger men. If the allegations prove true, then Bishop Long’s case will be the latest in a succession of gay sex scandals [...]


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		<title>Worlds apart –why an open society may be better after all</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Han wrote about Thomas Friedman’s Op-Ed in the New York Times on the “green economy,” contrasting the technocratic approach of China’s authoritarian rulers with the haphazard and undirected approach of the American political system. Han suggested that technocratic and authoritarian governments may have an advantage for costly but necessary endeavors. There is certainly [...]


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		<title>Should identity and politics ever mix?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/16/should-identity-and-politics-ever-mix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that France’s Senate has overwhelmingly approved banning Islamic full-body coverings. The heart of the issue is the integration of Muslim immigrants, who have been arriving in France and other European countries in large numbers for the last three decades but have often visibly failed to assimilate. Undoubtedly, the Paris riots of 2005 [...]


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