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...Japan. Here in this country, it's unusual to see such critical opinions on the condition of women given freely. For a long time, I have not been proud of being a woman. It makes me want to cry out to all Japanese men, "We women are not birth-giving machines!" Kimie Ueno Nishinomiya, Japan...
...you’re willing to endure extreme close-up shots of fetuses in various stages of development—a still-birth, and a self-administered abortion—your tolerance will be well rewarded...
...other words, the fewer the fish in the pond, the harder it is to catch one. Peak production occurs at the halfway point. Based on the available data about new oil fields, there are 2,013 billion bbl. of total producible oil. Adding up the oil produced from the birth of the industry until today, we will reach the dreaded 1,006.5-billion-bbl. halfway mark late this year. For two years, I've been predicting that world oil production would reach its peak on Thanksgiving Day 2005. Today, with high oil prices pushing virtually all oil producers to pull...
...selective colleges and universities in the United States, including Harvard. On its first page, right underneath the space for applicants’ names and ages, is a boxed-off set of questions that the form describes as strictly optional. They are questions that concern applicants’ places of birth, their mother tongues, and, most notably, their ethnic groups: pigeonholes that allow colleges to select their entering classes with an eye to diversity and minority representation...
...years after “Christopher”’s first edition in English, the non-profit Dalkey Archive Press gives this loud and incorrigible work by Mexico’s most famous novelist a much-deserved rebirth in American bookstores. In the nine months preceding his birth on Oct. 12, 1992 (the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’ arrival), Christopher reconstructs the web of romances and hatreds, schemes and coincidences that caused his conception and will shape his destiny. He begins, naturally, with his parents, but their tumultuous relationship and checkered pasts necessitate layer upon layer...