IHT on "We Should Still Like Ike" - 'The supreme commander of Allied forces during World War II, Eisenhower
believed the United States should not go to war unless the nation's
survival was at stake. "There is no alternative to peace," he said."
Reason Magazine on "Baby Bust" - 'At the heart of any fertility incentive lies an attempt to encourage a
particular group of women to orient their bodies in a traditional way.
Every pro-fertility policy is an effort to slow cultural
transformation, to stabilize a society's ethnic composition, to ossify
a current conception of a national culture by freezing the genetic
makeup of a nation. From Poland to Singapore, swollen wombs are a
bulwark against change.'
"Drunken Swede tries to row home" - BBC News on a drunk Swedish man who stole a dinghy to row home to Sweden from Denmark. He fell asleep half away across the 5km Oresund Strait. This is good local news.
"The Worms Crawl In" - NYT article on using hookworm infections to quell allergies. As an allergy sufferer, I will wait for the researchers to figure out the hookworms dampen one's immune response and wait for a pharmaceutical pill that is not a live parasite! Ewwwwwwww!
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