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... not only is their output (narcissistic supply) redundant, they hinder the parent's professional and pecuniary progress. The more children people c... ...r her gender is invisible to those listening - the number of women offered jobs in professional orchestras increased. Similarly, in science, studie... ... futile to argue for homosexuality or against it based on zoological observations. Ethics is about surpassing nature - not about emulating it. Th... ...associated with "mental disease or defect" or "mental retardation". Mental health professionals prefer to talk about an impairment of a "person's ... ... coherent) worldview, with consistent internal logic, and rules of right and wrong (ethics). Yet, these rarely conform to the way most people percei... ...eral Relations Studies Award of the American Embassy in Israel (1978). Hundreds of professional articles in all fields of finances and the economy, ...