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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although more research is needed on rapists themselves, Giles said noted researchers have found that the "typical" rapist does not differ from the "typical" American male. Most rapists, she said, are married and report normal sexual relationships...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Counselors Discuss Rape | 12/6/1977 | See Source »

...Experts differ on the actual efficiency of various models, but most good wood-burners deliver at least 60% of the fuel's potential in terms of heat-which is comparable to an oil burner. In terms of heating capacity, however, a cord of hardwood burned in a sound stove will deliver as much heat as 166 gal. of #2 fuel oil (Massachusetts price: about 48? per gal.), or 6,290 kilowatt hours of electricity (about $330 worth), or 264 therms of natural gas ($97). No wonder Americans are returning to their old flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Back-to-Wood Boom | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

PUMA members charge that both the wording and the enforcement of most prostitution laws are sexist, prohibiting women but not men from selling their bodies. Also, union members assert that police often arrest prostitutes while letting the customer go free. Members differ in their positions on shortterm legal reforms, but the group is adamant in its demand for ultimate decriminalization. It supports decriminalization as opposed to legalization because the former would eliminate legal hassles, while legalization might entail residual government restrictions...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: The Oldest Profession Organizes | 11/16/1977 | See Source »

...book is built on two circles of women; first Mira and her housewife friends in the '50s and later, Mira's grad student classmates at Harvard. Though the lifestyles and concerns of these two groups differ radically, both sets of women are forced to acknowledge that in twenty years, little has changed. The first group marries, almost automatically...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Wring Around the Collar | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

...irreformable" and require no "consent of the church." The bishops' lopsided 533-to-2 vote that day masked a deep division in the council and throughout the church. The immediate repercussions included the schism of "Old Catholics" and a wave of antichurch laws in Germany. Though scholars differ over where infallibility applies, the power has been invoked explicitly only once: in the 1950 declaration that Mary was assumed bodily into heaven. Even so, infallibility remains a fundamental obstacle to the reunion of Christianity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Was Vatican I Rigged? | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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