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Melton first testified before a U.S. Senate Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee on Jan. 10, 1999 on behalf of stem cell research, acting as a volunteer for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International...
Goldin, who received her B.A. from Cornell in 1967 and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1972, says that in her research as an economic historian, she found an abiding interest in the major changes to the female labor force that have taken place through the course of American history...
...languages). Since its publication Chang has done little except delve into the life of the man who devastated her family in Wild Swans. (Her parents, dedicated Communists, were denounced as class traitors during Mao's Cultural Revolution; her father was tortured, driven insane and worked to death in a labor camp.) Chang's obsession is evident. About one-sixth of the 800-page Mao: The Unknown Story cites the diaries, intelligence reports, diplomatic messages and other documents she and Halliday unearthed in China, Russia and elsewhere, plus the 150 or so former Mao minions, victims and acquaintances they interviewed, including...
Moyo and his 1,000 real men represent a larger trend. Over the past 40 years, as women poured into the labor force, the average amount of time that American married men spend cooking has tripled, from seven minutes per day to 22, according to John Robinson, co-author of Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time. Meanwhile the number of hours married women spend cooking has fallen from 88 minutes per day to 48. A recent survey by Mediamark Research found that the number of men ages 25 to 54 who cook for fun at least...
...profit organizations, the report draws on material collected from Horton's own trips to Burma plus a wide range of documents, photographs and maps sourced from different Burma-interest groups. It's the first time that alleged abuses by the junta?among them systematic rape and forced labor?have been so comprehensively documented and analyzed. Taken as a whole, claims Horton, the litany of atrocities may add up to ethnic cleansing of Burma's minorities like the Karen, the Karrenni and the Shan. "What's taking place in Burma is not mass killing like in Rwanda," he told TIME...