Middle schools are now handing out birth control. Earlier this month, the school board of the Portland, Maine, school district voted to approve a plan to offer free contraception to middle school students without their parents’ knowledge or consent. The responses have ranged from cautiously supportive to outraged. While the idea of sex in middle school is shocking to many, the community of Portland should come to its senses and support the program. More »
To the Editor: I am writing from Paris, where Al Gore was the honored guest at the French National Conference on the Environment on Oct. 25. Gore’s proposal to the U.S. Congress to ban incandescent lightbulbs seems anything but absurd to me, given the Australian ban as of 2009, an example many European countries are ready to follow (“Deliberating on Al Gore,” Oct. 26). As for the analogy of incandescent light bulbs/energy efficient ones, postal mail/e-mail, vinyl LPs/CDs, CDs/iTunes, surely the average reader sees why it’s faulty. More »
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