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...counter was like, 'I really hate to say this to you--this is sort of a policy we keep [quiet], but our owner doesn't like to hire women,'" Burnham said. "He seemed very sorry. Apparently, the owner was trying to preserve an authentic atmosphere...
...arrival of the sand-loving farangs, a whole new economy emerged. Families like the Thuaycharoens, known locally as the Khaos, grew wealthy building bungalow complexes and beach bars. Mustachioed Mr. Khao is now governor of the whole province. Bespectacled Mrs. Khao manages their real estate empire from behind the counter of her two-aisle grocery store. The kids who buy rolling papers and beer from her would be bummed to know she is dreaming of erecting a luxury hotel complex down the beach...
ANDRO STRIKES OUT Good thing Mark McGwire stopped taking it. In doses of 300 mg daily, androstenedione, the over-the-counter supplement the slugger used during his record 70-home-run season, can raise testosterone above normal levels and increase blood levels of the female hormone estrogen. Both are potentially hazardous. In men, elevated testosterone may lower good HDL cholesterol; in women, it's linked to beard growth and male-pattern baldness; and in kids, it can cause premature puberty. And elevated estrogen? In guys, that can lead to breast enlargement...
...monosexual way of life were counter to human nature, men wouldn't have spent so much of the past millennium dodging women by enlisting in armies, monasteries and all-male guilds and professions. Up until the past half-century, women only fantasized about their version of the same: a utopia like the one described by 19th century feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, where women would lead placidly sexless lives and reproduce by parthenogenesis. But a real separation began to look feasible about 50 years ago. With the invention of TV dinners and drip-dry shirts, for the first time the average...
Ultimately, of course, the battle for gay marriage has always been about more than winning the second-driver discount at the Avis counter. In fact, the individual who has done most to push same-sex marriage--a brilliant 43-year-old lawyer-activist named Evan Wolfson--doesn't even have a boyfriend. He and the others who brought the marriage lawsuits of the past decade want nothing less than full social equality, total validation--not just the right to inherit a mother-in-law's Cadillac. As Andrew Sullivan, the (also persistently single) intellectual force behind gay marriage, has written...