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...listened unblinkingly as the old woman urged me to center my life around a devoted husband and family so that I didn't end up forsaken like herself. The predictability of her advice was irritating. But her sorrowful goodbye and the haggard, living example she provided tempered my extremist aversion to the idea of marriage and a family. Lulla's predicament enlightened me to the fact that, for all the polemical feminist literature I'd digested since I was 12, my harsh beliefs had essentially taken shape within the safe and cozy confines of a happy middle-class suburban household...
With the present shortage of government research funds, much unsound or unproductive research will inevitably be weeded out by peer review groups. Yet the protests will not cease until scientists have learned to deal openly and directly with animal protection groups. Certainly some extremist protestors will continue to ignore the facts that some repetition of experiments on animals must be done to maintain scientific integrity, and that much research simply cannot be replaced by working with computer models. But most animal care protestors will find that their feelings of empathy exist in researchers as well, and will be able...
...ISSAM SARTAWI, one of the few moderate voices left in the ranks of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was shot to death in the lobby of a Portuguese hotel last week, the victim of an extremist assassination plot. Gloating over their gruesome triumph, the conspirators, based in Damascus, told the press that "it is our pleasure to Communicate to you our success in implementing the death sentence towards a criminal and a traitor." Sartawi died because he had the guts (or perhaps the foolhardiness) to suggest that his organization recognize and come to grips with a political entity that will always...
...what? Because the West Bank lies at the epicenter of Arab-Israeli tensions, both sides charged that the "epidemic" was politically based. Arab leaders maintained that Israeli authorities, or perhaps extremist Jewish settlers in the West Bank, had poisoned the schoolgirls, hoping to intimidate the Palestinians and eventually drive them out of the West Bank. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, declared that it was all part of a "planned and systematic crime against our people." Israeli officials, stung by such accusations, charged that the Palestinians were exaggerating the seriousness of the illness for political effect. Later...
Watt apparently wanted to portray environmentalists as subversive extremists so that his own rapacious policies would seem moderate by comparison. A Harris survey in the same issue of Business Week, however, showed that Americans overwhelmingly support tighter environmental regulations, despite their costs. The simple truth is that Watt himself is the extremist, concern for the environment has earned a firm position within the mainstream of American political opinion. By contrast. What's own recent shenanigans in Washington--such as revoking "protected" status for thousands of acres of land in the Midwest while Congress was in recess--betray a dangerous distregard...