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...language seemed innocuous enough: "Equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex." But in recent months, ad hoc groups of traditionalist women sprang up in New York and New Jersey to denounce the proposed state equal rights amendments as antimarriage, anti-family and likely to lead to unisex toilets. Pamphlets emblazoned with the inevitable picture of the gaping shark from Jaws warned that equal rights for women could mean the "ruination of America," and lead to homosexual marriages, loss of widows' benefits and the mass drafting of women into the U.S. armed...
Folk Foods. One reason for the diversity of recipes is that chili, like most folk foods, started out as an ad hoc combination of ingredients. For the range-riding cooks who invented it, chili consisted of scrawny beef-whose dubious flavor was masked by peppers and spices -and whatever else was around. In any case, it makes a nourishing dish. Roy M. Nakayama, 53, a New Mexico State University horticulturist who has studied peppers for 20 years and eats them three times a day, points out, "Chilis are rich in vitamins A and C. As antioxidants they also help preserve...
...current debate, not surprisingly, is a mixture of genuine academic debate, ad hoc hominem vitriol and political fulminations. Many scientists and non-scientists accuse Wilson of falling prey to the "naturalistic fallacy:" what exists helps the species survive and is thus right...
Last May an ad hoc faculty committee presented Dean Rosovsky and President Bok with a list of people who might fill the interdisciplinary chair...
...meeting was organized by an ad hoc committee of teachers and students at the Ed School. Members of the committee declined to comment on the pickets