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Both sides make valid points. It's just that neither seems to grasp the brazen new mood out there represented by, among other things, all the grass- roots female backing for Ms. Bobbitt. The retail clerks who send her letters of support, the homemakers who cackle wildly every time they sharpen the butcher knife are neither "tired of hearing about victims" nor eager to honor them. They're tired of being victims. And they're eager to see women fight back by whatever means necessary. Probably it all started when Louise -- or was it Thelma? -- dispatched that scumball would...
...grass-roots female militancy is not something that a women's studies professor would judge p.c. In fact, it looks a lot like your standard conservative anticrime backlash, but with a key difference: crime in this case is defined as what men have been getting away with for centuries...
...dairy cows are now being injected with a genetically engineered growth hormone (BST) so that they will produce more milk than ordinary cattle. Companies such as Monsanto and Calgene are set to market bioengineered plant products, including tomatoes that ripen without rotting. And researchers are talking about drought-tolerant grass that would need almost no mowing...
...incentives for single motherhood. Add to those sentiments an enduring voter discontent over taxes and pressure on the President to keep up his image as "new Democrat." All have combined to make welfare reform a White House priority. "It has gone from a subject for think tanks to a grass-roots issue," says one top Administration official. "It has a big head of steam...
They are no longer seasonal visitors. In a grass-roots revolution of the spirit, all sorts of people are finding all sorts of reasons to seek answers about angels for the first time in their lives...