Day: August 17, 2004

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Fathers play a crucial role in raising children

The presence of a father is critical to a child’s health, safety and upbringing. If children are to have productive lives and play positive roles in society, fathers need to step up and be more active role in raising their children, says Pete du Pont, policy chairman at the

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Managing fishing resources

A U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy report offers a plethora of solutions to the problem of over-fishing: More regulations, more bureaucracies and more government spending. Unfortunately, the report doesn’t include individual fishing quotas (IFQs), say Donald R. Leal and Jane S. Shaw of the Property and Environment Research Centre.

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Genetically engineered crops

Genetically engineered crops do not pose health risks that cannot also arise from crops created by other techniques, said the National Academy of Sciences in a recently issued report.

The report, which was commissioned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),

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Europe’s welfare society

Over the last half century, Western Europeans have gradually opted to work less and take longer vacations. They have put in place varying national versions of public universal health care, education and retirement benefits. They have set up a complex web of minimum income legislation, including unemployment subsidies and

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Job losses from outsourcing largely exaggerated

Some predict that the volume of U.S. offshore outsourcing will increase 30 to 40 per cent a year over the next five years. Moreover, the dourest predictions have more than 3.3 million white-collar jobs moving overseas by 2015. Yet when one looks inside these numbers, it’s apparent that relatively few

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