There are two ballot questions in Massachusetts this year aiming to improve the human rights situation in the state:

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ele12/ballot_questions_12/quest_3.htm

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http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ele12/ballot_questions_12/quest_2.htm

ballotpedia entry

I hope that Massachusetts will vote "Yes" on these questions.

Massachusetts voters have a chance to enact a reform addressing an important human rights issue this year:

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepip08/pip082.htm

http://www.sensiblemarijuanapolicy.org/

I urge people who have the right to vote in Massachusetts to vote "Yes" on the Statewide Ballot Question 2. The last day to register to vote or to update your voter registration info this year is October 15.

Crisis in the French Social Model?

Monday, November 28 ( details )

geshulka и mishkaegli создали сообщество в целях оказания поддержки изгнанным из Гуш Катифа:

http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=izgnanie

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Cardinal Schönborn clarifies the official position of the Roman Catholic Church on evolution:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/07/opinion/07schonborn.html

> "Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense - an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection - is not."

In reality, this question is open.

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Thomas L. Friedman speaks at MIT today.

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