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...celebrator of the alleged maternal instinct, "modern woman"--with her contraception, abortion rights, career and nanny--can only be a pitiful freak. Mid-20th century Freudians urged women to put aside ambition and masochistically (their word) submit to the maternal instinct. In the 19th century, gynecologists warned that any use of the female intellect--from novel reading to higher education--could foreclose motherhood by causing the uterus to, quite literally, wither away. Happiness was a full womb and a vacant mind...
Duke, Stanford and Columbia universities rounded out the top five. Stanford tumbled from second to fourth; Princeton fell from eighth to 20th. Yale was nudged from seventh to eighth, with nearly $225 million...
...fortunately such achievements have never been associated with the college experience. My concern is what else will be forfeited if these ventures are successful--those elements of college life that have come to characterize so much of American culture. I don't wish to sound 20th century about this, but could the country survive the eclipse, nay the elimination of the following...
America's gradual progress against AIDS will go down as one of the great scientific struggles of the late 20th century. But while the U.S. and other Western nations have made great strides in containing the virus at home, over the past two decades AIDS has grown into a pandemic across the developing world. The disease has spread to such a degree that, according to U.S. and U.N. security experts, AIDS now poses a major threat to global stability. According to a report in Sunday's Washington Post, the Clinton administration has recently made combating AIDS in developing countries...
...these final months of the Clinton administration the President has been scurrying to the left to shore up his legacy on liberal causes. There should be little doubt that the administration wants to be remembered for having done something to battle the plague of the latter half of the 20th century...