Quotes."Why not a nap at work? It can't be a taboo subject." --French Health Minister Xavier Bertrand on a government-sponsored study to determine the benefits of sleeping on the job, quoted by the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , January 29 "The number of women aged between 15 and 50 is fixed. Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask is for them to do their best per head." --Japanese Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa on his country's low birth rate, January 27. Afterward, he said he was "sorry to call them machines." "Brands work, and people use branded items more than they use nonbranded items, whether it's a cola or a medicine, even." --New York Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden on plans to hand out 1.5 million free condoms a month with pro-New York City designs on the wrappers In data mining and treatment learning, wrappers were used by Ron Kohavi and George John. Their idea was to wrap their treatments learners in a preprocessor that would search to make subsets from the current set of attributes. , January 25 "But I think any time we try to pass laws Pass laws in South Africa were designed to segregate the population and were one of the dominant features of the country's apartheid system. Introduced in South Africa in 1923, they were designed to regulate movement of black Africans into urban areas. that say you've got to protect the kids, it's, in general, always good. So we have to find out more about it." --Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] on a proposal to ban spanking spanking Pediatrics Corporal punishment, usually of children, in which the buttocks, are pummeled, swatted, or otherwise struck. See Corporal punishment Sexology Slapping, usually of the buttocks as a part of sexuoerotic activity. Cf Sadomasochism. , January 18 |
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