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...last Israeli out of Lebanon didn't turn off the lights, but he did lock the gate. He also symbolically opened a dangerous new chapter of Israel's troubled relations with its neighbors. The last Israelis departed before dawn Wednesday, as the collapse of their Lebanese Christian proxy army forced Prime Minister Ehud Barak to speed up the withdrawal plan. Even more worrying to the Israeli leader than the spectacle of his troops retreating under fire and Hezbollah guerrillas dancing triumphantly atop tanks abandoned by his Lebanese allies is the fact that the vacuum left by Israel has been filled...
...songs, especially with my short attention span. One moment they'll play some Andy Williams ("Can't get used to losing you/No matter what I try to do"); the next some hair-rock compilation featuring Poison will come on ("Every rose has its thorn/Just like every night has its dawn"). And there I sit, in the warm glow of my TV, shamelessly singing along to everything...
...Story of Elian, but also Senate majority leader Trent Lott and Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch. Undeterred by George W. Bush's lack of enthusiasm for such partisan theatrics, Lott boasted he would get to the bottom of where the obviously hopeless negotiations stood at the time of the dawn raid. And House majority whip Tom DeLay went ballistic over the government's "jackbooted thugs." He was far more publicly incensed by U.S. marshals using guns to forestall the threatened violence of the Miami crowd than he ever was over guns used by children to slaughter their classmates...
What makes a primate species start breeding more like bunnies than bonobos? Hrdy points to that great watershed of prehistory, the dawn of the Neolithic era, with the invention of agriculture, about 10,000 years ago. For one thing, the changing diet allowed girls to fatten up for puberty earlier and wean their babies faster, thus bearing more babies per lifetime. Men began to define land and animals as property and sources of prestige, it would seem, and women as chattel to be fought over...
With the "domestication" of women, and their consignment to frequent childbearing, patriarchy was born. The cultural pattern found in so many tribal horticultural societies--including warfare, male domination and polygyny--began to take hold worldwide. By the dawn of "civilization," the venerable female tendencies Hrdy tells us are so essential to successful primate motherhood--ambition, ingenuity and sexual adventurousness--had been redefined as immoral or at least "unnatural...