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...gender--her deepest awareness of her identity--doesn't correspond to the parts she was born with. Though she has become an activist in the past year or so, Ware struggled with these feelings for years. Now, at 45, she is happy with her inner and outward selves, the latter feminized with hormones and women's clothes. Ware isn't yet "transsexual," but she does plan to undergo what doctors call "sex-reassignment surgery" when she and her beau David can afford it; it will cost about as much as their new Nissan...
Sure, Gurian says, boys can't process emotional trauma as well as girls can, and without proper guidance can go haywire. And Pollack, as expected, says misdirected rage is a response to emotional repression and to society's message that anger is an acceptable male emotion. The latter argument--like Pollack's overall idea--seems more expansive and more convincing. But either way, we clearly ought to be paying more attention...
Behind the heritage hoopla is the newfound ease with which family connections can be traced, often with the aid of computers. Millions of federal records can be found in Washington's National Archives and Records Administration and its 13 regional branches. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, contains billions of names, with thousands more added each month by 75 research teams microfilming records all over the world. In 2000, visitors to Ellis Island will have computer access to all passenger lists of ships bringing immigrants to New York Harbor...
...sense that students started gettinginvolved in the latter part of the fall and in thewinter and in the spring," he said...
...just a promising beginning. There's a tricky diamond heist to be not quite perpetrated and many wild cards to be dealt into surprising, plausible play. Notable jokers in this deck include Ving Rhames and Steve Zahn as Foley's accomplices--the former prone to careless confession, the latter a blitzed former hippie not sharp enough for the criminal life--and a comically menacing Don Cheadle making Albert Brooks' white-collar jailbird understandably nervous...