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Women have certainly bridged much of the gender gap in the past sixty years; ask a girl today if she knows who June Cleaver is and she will most likely give you a blank stare. Despite the fact that girls no longer aim solely for Leave-it-to-Beaver-style domestic happiness, it seems that we have now reached an impasse in terms of gender equality. Even though around 58 percent of all people earning bachelor’s degrees are females, women seem to be unable to translate this educational advantage into concrete gains in other fields. This dilemma...
What surprised you about working with meat? When I started trying to learn, I thought the way most people do about the butcher - a savage man with a big cleaver. But what I very quickly discovered is that it is actually a much more delicate process and that taking a 150-lb. chuck shoulder and then breaking it down into short ribs and sausage meat is a long set of little steps. I love that 90% of butchering is done with the 1-in. tip of your 5-in. boning knife. There is a road map in every piece...
...From Julie and Julie to Julie With a Cleaver...
...Khan, with terrorists entering the city. The police are weak in this regard. They do not recognize these people - we have informants there." All around him, young men with long hair and disheveled beards flaunt a range of weapons. During the conversation, a farouche-looking man emerges, carrying a cleaver dripping with fresh blood. "Don't worry," says one of the gunmen, with a broad and satisfied grin. "They are only slaughtering a lamb...
...plain text promises to end the agonizing guessing game by confirming, beyond doubt, that the other person feels the same way. For some people, this declaration can become decidedly too real: Take the extreme example of the London resident who hacked his estranged wife to death with a meat cleaver last October after she changed her Facebook relationship status to “single.” Psychotic tendencies aside, this tragic case demonstrates the reality-making power of labels and begs the questions: What makes the online construction of a relationship status any less ephemeral or more valid than...