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...Feminist Alliance sought to “raise the awareness of the Harvard-Radcliffe population to women’s issues through events and actions,” organizer Gail M. Pendelton ’81 told The Crimson in 1980. A second group, The Coalition, was an umbrella organization that would include the Feminist Alliance and other women’s groups...
...trip is fueling the adventure-travel market, especially since many adventure travelers are women in their 40s. Women who want company but don't have family or friends who feel like rafting in Costa Rica seek out a new breed of travel agency - like Gutsy Women Travel, founded by Gail Golden, 55, wife of former TWA boss Carl Icahn. Half the women who sign on for her trips are married, but their husbands aren't interested in taking cooking classes in Italy or visiting gardens in Savannah. "He likes the fact that she is safe, traveling with an escorted group...
Sometime in the misty past, most of us glommed onto the idea that life progresses neatly from one phase to another. A midlife crisis seemed to fit naturally into this scheme, somewhere around, oh, 47. Now it's as if the pages of Gail Sheehy's Passages have been put through a blender. You can have a baby at any age from 15 to 50. You may find yourself back in school at 30, 40 or 60. And that's partly because you can be put out to pasture by your employer at any age at all. University of Minnesota...
...these red flags, experts were unable to pinpoint when the big boom would come, or even if it would. Lacking that precision, Colombia, perhaps reluctant to disrupt the lives of residents with a false alarm, was unable to act in time. In a heavily populated area, says Gail Mahood, a geologist at Stanford University in California, "if you make a prediction and you're wrong, you could cost billions of dollars to an economy...
...jubilation affected people in virtually every age group and walk of life. The return of old Coke is "the best thing that ever happened since the wheel," said Randy Deaton, 32, a Michigan hotel manager. "I switched to water when they stopped making the old Coke." Exclaimed Gail Hilty, 16, a senior at Redwood High School in Larkspur, Calif.: "Thank God! I don't like the new stuff at all. Nobody likes it--at least nobody that I know." On Staten Island, N.Y., Tracy Collica, 11, and Michael, 8, feed their two-year-old brother Larry both kinds of Coke...