Once Forbidden, Now Championed
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Toni Bentley, a former ballerina, is the author of an extremely graphic memoir and also a paean to a sexual practice once thought taboo.
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Comment is free: Johnjoe McFadden: Our resistance to an epidemic 3m years ago may have exposed us to the risk of HIV today.
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Blog: The species was changed. But it's controversial.
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By Adam Smeltz, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Sep.
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An authorâs throwback view on the culture of casual sex among young women is under fire.
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A teenager is forbidden to say "grass." A great-grandfather is banned from being sarcastic. And two record companies are told not to put up advertising posters.
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More than a decade ago, a howl went up about the way new drugs were tested. Virtually all trials were limited to white males, even though some medical differences based on race are widely acknowledged.
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Smoking is forbidden in nearly three out of four U.S. households, a dramatic increase from the 43 percent of homes that prohibited smoking a decade ago
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Here is the coverage in The New York Times and the New York Law Journal about the denial of United for Peace and Justice's Sunday rally in Central Park (United for Peace and Justice v. Bloomberg, 111893/04), and here is what NY Supreme Court1 Justice Silbermann said:      [...] the evidence established that the department's determination was based on entirely content-neutral factors, to wit: that the Great Lawn2 was not an appropriate venue for a demonstration of this magnitude.     [...]  The Parks Department appropriately applied content-neutral regulations while leaving plaintiff with a reasonable alternate site.
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Comment is free: Libby Brooks: To cut offences like Chris Langham's, we should treat sexual abuse as a public health issue and discuss it without taboo
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By Christopher Schwarzen, Seattle Times  CORRECTION: Clarification: Information in this article, originally published May 23, was corrected June 1.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - Call it a kissing crackdown. Indonesia's government is considering a law banning unwed couples from pecking in public - and harshly penalizing those who do, The Jakarta Post reported Saturday.
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Comment is free: Isabel Hilton: Increasing numbers are speaking up against local tyrannies and corruption, and no longer can the state silence them.
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A media sting operation gone awry revives a debate on media regulation
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CHICAGO _ Many conservative Anglicans would agree with Nigerian lay minister Davis Mac-Iyalla that the summer of 2003 _ when the Episcopal Church approved the first openly gay bishop _ left a gaping hole and wrenching pain in their hearts. But not for the same reasons.
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The Interior Department had tried to limit a separate set of protections for the majestic bird that has served as a national symbol for centuries.
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All of the human embryonic stem cells available to federally funded scientists under President Bush&#39;s three-year-old research policy share a previously unrecognized trait that fosters rejection