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What's a girl to do? -- My orgasm, my self -- Just pick someone, already -- Everyone else manages to do it, so why can't I? -- This is a test -- Having our cake and eating it too -- You can't run out of love -- It's not necessarily what you think -- The four (not-so) easy steps -- Our very own happily ever after

"European integration has created a constitutional asymmetry between policies promoting market efficiencies and policies promoting social protection and equality. National welfare states are legally and economically constrained by European rules of economic integration, liberalization, and competition law, whereas efforts to adopt European social policies are politically impeded by the diversity of national welfare states, differing not only in levels of economic development and hence in their ability to pay for social transfers and services but, even more significantly, in their normative aspirations and institutional structures. In response, the 'Open Method of Coordination' is now applied being in the social-policy field. It leaves effective policy choices at the national level, but tries to improve these through promoting common objectives and common indicators and through comparative evaluations of national policy performance. These efforts are useful but cannot overcome the constitutional asymmetry. Hence there is reason to search for solutions which must have the character of European law in order to establish constitutional parity with the rules of European economic integration, but which also must be sufficiently differentiated to accommodate the existing diversity of national welfare regimes. The article discusses two such options, 'Closer Cooperation' and a combination of differentiated 'framework directives' with the Open Method of Coordination." (author's abstract)

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses on the efforts of federal agencies to prepare for the consequences of a bioterrorist attack. GAO found that federal agencies are participating in research and preparedness activities, from improving the detection of biological agents to developing a national stockpile of pharmaceuticals to treat victims of disasters. Federal agencies also have several efforts underway to coordinate these activities on a formal and informal basis, such as interagency work groups. Despite these efforts however, coordination between agencies remains fragmented. GAO also found emerging concerns about the preparedness of state and local jurisdictions, including insufficient state and local planning for response to terrorist events, inadequate public health infrastructure, a lack of hospital participation in training on terrorism and emergency response planning, insufficient capabilities for treating mass casualties, and the timely availability of medical teams and resources in an emergency. This testimony summarizes a September 2001 report (GAO-01-915)."

Ikisiri
Wanahistoria na wanafasihi wameendelea kujadili uwezo wa fasihi ya Kiafrika kusawiri historia ya Afrika. Baadhi ya wataalamu wanadai kwamba fasihi ya Kiafrika haina uwezo wa kuakisi ukweli wa kihistoria; wengine wanaona kwamba ni baadhi tu ya tanzu za fasihi zinazoweza kusawiri historia ya jamii fulani. Aidha, wengine wanaona kuwa fasihi, kwa ujumla wake, bila kujali utanzu, husawiri historia ya jamii fulani. Data zilizobainishwa hapa zinaonyesha kwamba aina zote za kazi za fasihi – ushairi, tamthilia, riwaya, na fasihi simulizi – zimesawiri historia ya jamii mahususi za Kiafrika. Hivyo, kazi za fasihi ni miongoni mwa vyanzo muhimu vya data za kihistoria.