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  Fewer Babies, for Better or Worse - Room for Debate

  As European, Chinese and American women have fewer children, is the global economy endangered? Or is this easing the burden on a crowded planet?

  The global economy is not endangered.  In the U.S. Farmers have gone from making a bare surplus in good years to feeding fifty or more in almost every year.

  The burden on the planet is not eased.  The farmers have done it by using energy to substitute for human and animal labor.  

  The question is misdirected.

  Fewer babies is a better way.  There is more for all.
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        I don't know why they are shutting out the world.
        I can guess it is for reasons we know from experience.
        Sooner is better.        As soon as you can is best.

    
    
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  Obama's Tax Plan: What He Really Told Us - Room for Debate

  Implicit in Obama's plan is a recognition that there is something deeply dangerous about the direction in which our elites have led us.

  
  

  Perhaps the best metaphor for an overpaid executive is a lamprey. 

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampreys

  A parasitic "fish".

  The boards of directors should deal with them.

  A nation state must collect taxes in some form.
  Collecting them where they do the least harm only makes sense.
  To twist Marx and Engels: From each according to their abilities; to each according to our needs.
  One of our needs is feeling that we are not abusing the poor among us.

  
  
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  Should Insurers Pay for Eating Disorders? - Room for Debate

  As insurers are pushed to pay for residential treatment for eating disorders, the principle of equal coverage for mental and physical health is tested.
  The rule must be: Cure where possible, Treat when asked,  palliative care as a default.
  In the case of anorexia palliative care is the treatment.  It is much more economical to treat in a residential environment.
  Yes, the insurer must pay. 
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  Single-Sex Schools: Separate but Equal? - Room for Debate

  A new study debunks the benefits of segregation by sex in the classroom, and says the practice does more harm than good. Should it be illegal?
  

  • What Our Research Shows

    Richard Fabes, professor of child development
    

   "For nearly a decade, proponents of single-sex schooling have argued that boys and girls differ so fundamentally in brain functioning, sensory abilities, interests, stress responsiveness and more that they cannot be taught effectively in the same classrooms. However, scientific data do not support these claims, and, indeed, many single-sex advocates have recently backed away from them. Nonetheless, such advocates have already trained hundreds of teachers (often at taxpayer expense) in mythic “gender-specific learning styles” that make a mockery of Title IX’s requirement to eliminate sex discrimination in schools."
  We must allow it as we allow other religious schools.
  We cannot pay for it from the public purse.
  Single sex schools must be private and without tax support.
  Even gender specific classes should be limited to boys and girls lavatories and locker rooms.
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  A Better, Not Bigger, Economy - Room for Debate

  Rather than bemoan the fact that reduced population growth might lead to less economic growth, we should try to lock in lower fertility levels.
  Eugenics has a bad odor.  We can escalate costs for multiple children. 
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  Are Americans More Prone to A.D.H.D.? - Room for Debate

  The high-energy, risk-taking traits of attention deficit disorder may be part of the nation's pioneer DNA. Or maybe we're just overmedicated.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Katzenjammer_Kids
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_and_Moritz
  
  More at over sensitized.
  The diagnosis is recent, the problem ancient. 
  The behavior is disruptive and addictive. 
  Traditionally  beatings were administered. 
  I do not recommend a return to the practice.  
  
  Correcting behavior in children needs the attention of clever people.

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