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...film Fight Club, the modern male feels alienated because he is led to believe that his self worth is determined by his name-brand underwear and the interior design of his apartment. Although it may lead to superior style and more urban tastes, metrosexuality is a dead-end on the road to rediscovering a healthy masculinity. We need this sense of male identity if we are going to survive in a future that relies increasingly less on those traits unique to our sex. If we don’t rediscover this healthy male identity, who knows—the Crab...
...classroom pointers are now available in Lois Frankel's Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office. As promised in the subtitle, the book details 101 unconscious mistakes women make that sabotage their careers--ranging from tilting their heads when they talk to couching statements as questions and accepting dead-end assignments. Frankel, an executive coach who has worked with FORTUNE 500 companies, offers tips like "Don't substitute tears for anger." In other words, skip the Kleenex, ladies. Get mad, get even--and get ahead...
...proposal--or any other moon-and-Mars proposal--out of the blueprint stage and into space? For one thing, it would take a real commitment. Remember the national aerospace plane? No? Neither does anyone else, but this was one of the start-and-stop projects on which NASA lavished dead-end research dollars in the 1980s. "From 1961 to 1973," says Zubrin, "we had Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Ranger, Mariner, Surveyor, and we developed almost all the space technology we have today. What did we accomplish in the '90s? We flew half-a-dozen robotic probes and 60 shuttle missions...
...tens of thousands of students who depend on AmeriCorps’ average $4,724 grant to pay for college, it can mean the difference between an interesting, rewarding career and a dead-end, minimum-wage job. By putting those students to work on important service projects, AmeriCorps funding also helps build strong, happy communities—and it has bipartisan support across the country. A program like AmeriCorps cries out to be dramatically expanded to help young people build skills while at the same time serving their country in a positive and peaceful way. But President Bush?...
...that we’re all big bad college kids, with drivers’ licenses and a sense of dignity, we rarely think back to those dead-end nights—perhaps in part by choice, but also because our lives have become so different that it’s difficult to recapture that sense of enclosure, to relate to that time when we knew exactly where our boundaries were because all we had to do was reach out and touch them. College has become synonymous with freedom for many an American teenager, but often this freedom means that...