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...among the most prominent of the so-called Rhone Rangers, who are producing wines from such southern French varietals as Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre and Roussanne. The names of Grahm's fruity blends slyly honor their links to Provence. Old Telegram is a tribute to a famous Chateauneuf-du-Pape label called Vieux Telegraphe. Le Cigare Volant (the French term for flying saucer) refers to a whimsical law passed by Chateauneuf's council banning flying saucers from landing in the town's vineyards...
...suspected of causing heart abnormalities in rats. Rapeseed oil was relegated to American industrial uses, like lubricating heavy machinery or putting the shine in glossy paper. Oil from a new strain of the plant won FDA approval as a cooking oil in 1985. Even then, manufacturers had to label products, unappetizingly, as low-erucic-acid rapeseed oil. Finally, in 1988, the FDA allowed the product to be called by the name used in Canada, where most canola is produced. Soon thereafter its reputation took...
Given this combination of goals and fears, young women would appear to be disciples of feminism, embracing the movement as a means of sorting out social change. But while the goals are applauded by three-quarters of young people, the feminist label is viewed with disdain and alarm; the name Gloria Steinem is uttered as an epithet. Some young people reject the movement on principle: "The whole women's movement is pushing the career women," says Kathy Smith, 19, a sophomore at Vanderbilt, "and making light of being a homemaker...
Others feel that the battle belonged to a different generation, without realizing that the very existence of a debate about family leave, abortion, flextime and affirmative action is the fruit of an ongoing revolution. Minority women seem to be the group least likely to abandon the feminist label, perhaps because they are most aware of how many critical battles remain to be fought. In fact, argues Stephanie Batiste, 18, a black freshman at Princeton, "minority women are almost a separate women's movement . . . You're very alone. You get a lot less support...
...April 1989, Shalini Malhotra, 20, a Delhi newlywed, was beaten and doused in whiskey and then set aflame. Four days later, after accusing her husband, she died of her burns. Women's rights organizations were quick to label it a "dowry death," the murder of a newlywed because she does not bring enough money to the marriage. Before her death, Malhotra told authorities that her husband Praveen had been pressuring her family to give him money to start a business. Malhotra had resisted this request...