Word: alison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fair, there are many gems of wisdom amidst the rubble. Novelist McDermott speaks poignantly of the expectations of women writers who are also mothers, and writer Marge Piercy speaks of the writer's responsibilities to public life. Satirist Alison Lurie has an intelligent and balanced view of the price of feminist separatism, and novelist Anne Lamott draws surprising connections between women's literature and culture and therapy. And nanogenarian poet Janet Lewis has fabulous insights into women's history. As she says, "the funny thing about women is that there have always been startling and tremendous women all along, regardless...
Makeup: Eugene F. Coyle (Chief); Alison E. Ruffley, Leonard Schulman...
...mistake," says Alison Carlson, a tennis coach and member of the I.A.A.F. committee that recommended the new test, "is in the simplistic idea we all learned in high school that chromosomes determine gender." While a Y chromosome ordinarily makes someone a man, explains Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson, a University of Tennessee gynecologist who was also on the I.A.A.F. committee, "about 1 in 20,000 people has genes that conflict with his or her apparent gender." In some cases, the Y chromosome is defective and fails to properly signal the body to produce masculinizing hormones -- or in the case...
...might have noticed by now that the the Crames features the musical stylings of one family, brother and sister Jim and Alison. Guitarists Mark Francombe and Matt Cope provide some background noise, but the real blame for this musical ordeal should go to the Shaws...
Someone needs to stop this dreadful duo. Keep them away from musical instruments, and above all, do not let Alison open her mouth...