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...starters, she argues, Nixon’s and Kruschev’s debates in a model kitchen are an allegory to the “sexual politics of meat.” And she claims that even the seemingly benign symbols of our carno-centric culture—in her slide show, a cartoon pig with barely noticeable eyelashes—are really insidious elements which further the oppression of women (and animals) by “feminizing animals and animalizing females...
Aside from being apart over the summer months, Lingman was kept out of action for most of the off-season after undergoing surgery to remove ovarian cysts that later proved to be benign...
...After publication, I began to explore marijuana as a drug for relaxation and recreation, and I was not disappointed. In fact, it soon displaced alcohol altogether. I was 44 years old in 1972, when I experienced my first marijuana high. I have found cannabis so useful and so benign that I have used it ever since—as a recreational drug, as a medicine and as an enhancer of some capacities...
...most of the exploitation of these flaws is benign or short lived. Of the 77,000 known viruses in the world, all but 900 are known as zoo viruses; that is, their incurably geeky creators simply e-mailed them to antivirus-software firms like proud parents passing around pictures of their new offspring. Roughly 200 viruses are in the wild at any one time. Most simply don't spread well; others are lame attempts at getting you to open an infected e-mail attachment. "Nude pictures of your wife," anyone...
Bryant proved last week that he can be a charismatic testifier. But he may have a tougher audience in Eagle County, a Colorado district in which blacks total only 0.3% of the population. Even here, though, Bryant's benign image may trump his color. "Kobe the superstar is in some ways raceless," says Kenneth Shropshire, author of In Black and White: Race and Sports in America. "He could be like Michael Jordan, someone nonurban white folks think of as a superstar, and not primarily a black...