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...hard to find a woman in Kabul now who does not remember a beating at the hands of the Taliban. As it consolidated power, its orders became increasingly bizarre and sadistic, based on its extreme interpretations of Koranic instructions. One of these demanded punishment for women who allowed their shoes to make noise when they walked down the street. But this surreal pettiness masked real misery. The ban on work for most women had a disastrous effect on schooling for both sexes, since as many as 70% of all Afghan teachers were women. Excluding them from the classroom meant that...
...that the slavering media are instruments in a larger sociobiology that replicates, on a national (or even international) scale, the gossip dynamics of a village? Gossip - however vicious, obsessive, and intrusive - has always served an important community function. The stories work as parables, forms of instruction, universal metaphors. (What, God help us, does the parable of O.J. Simpson instruct our children about justice...
...Some of these therapies prevent a class of chemicals called growth factors from reaching a tumor, blocking signals that would otherwise instruct the cell to grow out of control. Others tip the delicate balance that every cell maintains between life and death, driving cancerous cells to self-destruct. Still others block enzymes that cancer cells use to chew openings in normal tissues and give themselves room to expand. And, most famously, the class of compounds known as angiogenesis inhibitors keep tumors from building new blood vessels to supply themselves with food and oxygen. Three years ago, Nobel laureate James Watson...
Some of these therapies prevent a class of chemicals called growth factors from reaching a tumor, blocking signals that would otherwise instruct the cell to grow out of control. Others tip the delicate balance that every cell maintains between life and death, driving cancerous cells to self-destruct. Still others block enzymes that cancer cells use to chew openings in normal tissues and give themselves room to expand. And, most famously, the class of compounds known as angiogenesis inhibitors keep tumors from building new blood vessels to supply themselves with food and oxygen. Three years ago, Nobel laureate James Watson...
...public-service sector, the demand for teachers to instruct the young and for nurses to treat the old remains just as hot. At the University of Delaware, a recent job fair lured recruiters from 150 school districts across the U.S., who raced through 3,000 interviews in a single day. Small wonder that some 95% of Delaware's approximately 500 graduating teachers have landed jobs. The rest are merely avoiding them...