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Why shouldn’t cousins be allowed to marry? Opponents of cousin marriage generally cite the Bible or genetic birth defects. As we have learned, the Bible loves cousin marriages. So what about birth defects? The facts show that first-cousins have the same increased risk of having a baby with birth defects as a woman over 30 [...]

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Perhaps the most pervasive, and unmerited, argument regarding cousin marriages is that the children born to such couples will have mental or physical disabilities, which become a burden on society in terms of tax dollars.
The question is:
How risky is it really to have a child with your cousin?
The answer is: Not nearly as risky as [...]

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Cousin marriage laws outdated
Laws banning marriage between first cousins are based on outdated assumptions about a high degree of genetic risk for offspring and should be repealed, according to a population genetics expert.

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Facts About Cousin Marriage
Some people are fixated on the fallacy that cousin couples pose an intolerable risk to their offspring. However it is likely that we are all descendants of cousin marriages. Before civil laws banning cousin marriages, it was preferable to marry a cousin in some communities as it is to this day in [...]

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IN a capitalist society, not only goods and services, but everything and anything including ideas, art, culture, sports and sportspersons, love, god and religion, and human beings and their organs are converted into commodities to be traded. Profit is the driving force and nothing is sacred, to be spared from the clutches of the market [...]

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The real issues of people – men and women ? poverty, illiteracy, ill health etc., cannot be resolved within the framework of the capitalist society. As Lenin said ?there is no ?equality?, nor can there be, of oppressed and oppressor, exploited and exploiter. There is no real ?freedom?, nor can there be, so long as [...]

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Where is the Eclipse Visible?
Sources such as NASA say that the eclipse will be seen in the larger path of the moon’s penumbral shadow, which includes the southern third of Africa, Madagascar, many parts of Australia (except Tasmania), south-east India, south-east Asia and Indonesia, on January 26, 2009.
According to Harrington (1997), the [...]

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The International Year of Astronomy (IYA), now under way, marks the 400th anniversary of the year that famed Italian astronomer Galileo began observing and documenting the heavens with increasingly powerful telescopes.
But in a paper in the current Astronomy & Geophysics, University of Oxford historian Allan Chapman argues that [...]