European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              April 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 19 opinion what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected from a Cross Section of newspapers throughout the United the editorials Are provided by the associated press and other stateside working mothers still involved the Mommy guilt leads to Mommy and a recent one is receiving a collective sigh of unlike studies that measure the num ber of hours working mothers spend away from a demographer at the univer sity of Suzanne Ana lazed How any amount of time at Home is she found that when working moms Are the direct time they say they spend with their children is 10 or 11 hours a that amount of time rivals the num ber of hours stayathome moms of the 1970s reported spending with their Chil Dren in direct rather than just being accessible around the it int that the june cleavers of the past were Busy doing but kids Likely were More in the moms used to read the paper while kids played inde for now moms save Reading until the kids go to bed or skip such activities we Hope the study relieves some pres sure on moms who Are trying their Best to do it expectations of parents in some higher than and both working and Sta Home parents Are Mak ing a lot of personal sacrifices free spouse time in order to accommodate the schedules of a child entered Sci Edwardsen play cards dealt the Cincinnati enquirer the recurrence of Elizabeth Edwards cancer has brought a sobering pause to a Campaign Trail 584 Days before the next presidential pollsters Are Al ready obsessively calculating and recalculating candidates the news sent political analysts hurry ing to predict How the illness would affect John Edwards Campaign whether contributors would quietly Back if the couple could endure the arduous Campaign whether voters would be sym pathetic or sceptical about electing a pub Lic Leader who would be forced to Deal privately with a loved ones fatal the couple flew off on a fundraising sweep that took in both the gesture want melodramatic or even Overly the fundraisers had been planned in the Edwardsen simply kept their but while others try to calculate the cancer the Edwardsen Are using their Best weapon to fend off its intrusive they Are making decisions about those matters that Are left in their hands to de one Standard for databases the Watertown daily times the Federal government and states have established databases containing the Dan of convicted criminals in some even the the Are governed by Laws that define who will be required to provide Dan Sam Ples and under what circumstances they May be retained in the eve expanding the use of Dan in crime solving is in the databases containing Sam prickly City by Scott Stantis a Iowa pies of millions of criminals and suspects nationwide serve that the sys tem maintained by the Fri has solved More than crimes since but there Are also limits to the database the Fri cannot store samples of suspects who have been acquitted or from those who voluntarily Supply a Dan Sam ple to prove themselves some states require samples from a Broad Range of including Mise while others demand genetic material from those convicted of More serious while guidelines exist on the Federal and state some Agen cies at the local level Are maintaining their own systems without the legislative they operate in a Gray area of the Law with conflicting court rulings on the databases Usa today re at the the databases maintained by municipal police or other Law enforce ment agencies should be required to oper ate under the same restraints As those maintained by state and Federal author otherwise they circumvent and effectively set aside restrictions meant to protect the innocent and ensure Gonzales probe is a key test he Elkhart truth As tails continue to come to Light re Gardi the dismissal of Federal pros ecu s apparent the White House offer to let key aides answer questions in seer without a record and without swe ring an oath to Tell the is not suf i sports that attorney general Alberto Grizales was More involved than he earlier admitted weaken the Bush administrations efforts to end this growing Contro Gonzales himself is scheduled to testify april 17 before the Senate judiciary president Bush should be willing to allow others in the administration to face Public democrats insist that one reason voters put them in charge of the House and the Senate in the 2006 elections was to impose accountability on the the democrats must use that Power the investigation of the firing of Federal prosecutors is a key test of How they will presidents have the right to appoint prosecutors who will follow their Broad political and those prosecutors serve at the pleasure of the adm Nistra they Wield enormous Howe and they should not be asked to use that Power for political to do so would gravely undermine americans Confidence in the Federal jus Tice Mideast needs an engaged the Orlando Sentinel after an off again approach throughout much of his George Bush finally seems to be giving the Mideast peace process the High level attention it Secretary of state condole Ezza Rice has met with leaders in the Region four times in the past four it makes sense for Rice to keep talking with palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas even after his Fatah faction formed a coalition government this month with which refuses to recognize Israel or renounce the United states would weaken palestinian moderates and lose any possible influence with the new but it would be irresponsible and immoral for the to resume direct Aid to the new government until both its part ners accept Israel and reject seasoned observers of the Mideast peace process know better than to count on even some recent developments suggest the window of Opportunity could be opening a crack for easing the enmity Between Israel and its for credibility throughout the mid its essential for the Bush administration to remain engaged in the peace pro and history says breakthroughs Are unlikely without help Fra ensure honest views the the Federal food and drug administration has taken a Small first step toward making sure that when it seeks expert advice about a new those opinions come from experts who do not have thick financial ties to the drugs maker or its compe the 7da is proposing that scientists with a combination of drug company i Grants or other income total ing than not be allowed on the committees that advise the Fra about drug Safe y and those with thinner i Ancial ties May be allowed in on the discussions but would not vote when the i Smittee compiles its recommendation setting a Noney limit is not the Fra has for some years required experts to disclose their Industry but the Fra handed of so Many waivers that it Ren dered the disclosure requirements Impo unless the Fra gets stingy with waivers and the new rules will not mean the drug companies seek out certain scientists for the same reason that the Fra does they Are the Best in their it May be that the government needs to put some of those experts on retainers that leave them conflict free at least for a period of time to give objective advice when an important new class of drugs for having failed to tackle the problem of conflicts Headon until the Fra has a Long Way to go when it comes to making sure its expert advice comes without abstinence Only inadequate Akron Ohio Beacon journal since when Ohio required schools to teach that sexual abstinence is the Only sure Way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted the state has be come something of a National it is a dubious one that Ted Strickland now proposes to advocates of the approach cite declining teen pregnancy but reports by the Alan Guttmacher Institute show significant declines were re ported Well before widespread govern ment funding of abstinence Only pro the reduction mostly due to improved contraceptive use by sexually Active As Strickland studies have failed to find a valid link Between Asti Nence Only education and a decline in the sexual activity of he believes in a curriculum that includes but also gives students a Complete picture of How to protect them selves from pregnancy and sexually transmitted Organ donors but fort Worth Texas Star Telegram state lawmakers in South Carolina Are debating a Bill that would allow prison in mates to Volunteer to donate organs or Bone marrow in Exchange for time off their the Bills state Ralph defended this startling idea in the Charlotte observer by saying people Are i think its imperative that we go All out and see what we can although the desire to help people in need of lifesaving organs is a worthy one wonders if Anderson has looked at a donor questionnaire of pierced ears can defer a blood donor for a a bulging disk will Bounce a Candi Date As a potential marrow and then theres that Pesky do not do Nate if item on the american red Cross guidelines you have been held in a correctional facility including prisons detention centers for More than 72 hours in the last 12 Anderson deserves a nod for increasing awareness of the need for More marrow and Organ the method for garnering that attention Falls Short on execution so to