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Today medical rules are getting more relaxed. Some transgenders still elect to have full operations, but others (especially the young) express gender their own way, perhaps just with clothing or hormone treatments or with partial surgery. Increasingly, they simply refuse to discuss their private parts. "What's important is hate crimes and job discrimination," says Shannon Minter, a female-to-male transgender and civil rights lawyer. "Why does everyone want to talk about my genitals...
...selected phrases from the transcript, rearranged them and presented them as if they were verbatim conversation. Operating on "gorilla time" rather than Internet chat time, Koko was often still responding to earlier topics when the fast-paced chat had already moved on to new ones. If you want to express an opinion about our work in interspecies communication, that is your right, but your so-called transcript, with selected quotes and the omission of many lines of dialogue that provided context, deceived readers and was just plain bad journalism. Your readers can find a full transcript of the AOL chat...
...more this-worldly among us, though, it may seem cliched, but we can and should express our appreciation to the famous and not-so-famous who have touched us while they're still around. For the famous in particular, rather than devouring the gossip dredged from their private lives, we should thank them for their achievements by supporting them and respecting their privacy. It's time we worked to diminish our seemingly insatiable appetite for celebrity news and gossip. By turning down the glare of the bright lights, we can let the celebrated live and die in peace...
...deserters who fled to the forests after the Civil War. The area became fertile ground for the Klan. "There is a predisposition, a culture over here in East Texas," says John Craig, co-author of Soldiers of God, a new book about America's white supremacists. "It does not express itself all the time, but it is rampant over here." An all-white militia group, he says, operates a 200-acre training facility in the county. Even Kimler acknowledges that "there is a lot of quiet support for the Klan...
...medium that is truer to life than anything that's come before: "People have a complex sense of their own lives, which isn't often accounted for in popular art--they're capable of very complex relationships. New media have to be faulted--ironically!--for the failure to express that complexity...