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Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

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The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you,…
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring…
American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to…
I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings…
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms,…
If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means…
The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

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