Word: men
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When does your issue come out on typical men, featuring naked male bodies? I'd like a little beefcake too!" KATHY PTACIN Wauwatosa...
...vast corruption have terrified investors and left average Russians convinced that capitalism is a con game fixed by criminals in high places. The government can't collect enough taxes to keep afloat, and has delayed economic reforms to preserve stability. Meanwhile, life is so miserable that life expectancy for men has dropped to 58 (from 65 years in the mid-'80s) and the country's population shrank by 400,000 last year. "Russia," says Paul Goble, a Radio Free Europe analyst, "has more in common with Somalia than Poland...
...more evidence of abuse among mail-order couples than among the general public. "Our clients are bank presidents, educators, professionals of every type," he says. His company sells addresses ($9 apiece for two, $7 apiece for up to 13) and leads 11 tours a year to foreign socials, where men can meet the women they've corresponded with. "I've looked all around here and haven't found anyone," says Jeffrey Porter, 48, who owns a construction company in Crown Point, Ind., and shelled out $3,500 for a July trip to St. Petersburg. "I want someone to share...
Love struck quickly, says Redburn's wife Elina, who had an engineering degree in Russia and now works for her husband. Same for Adams' wife Tanya, who has a business degree. The women miss aspects of home but say good riddance to Russian men. Besides, it may take some improvising and networking, Tanya says, but it is possible to make good borscht in Phoenix...
Even though they may now be calling themselves "femaleists," they're still singing the same old feminist refrain: "We're not inferior to men. If anything, we're superior (so stop oppressing us by forcing us into outdated, limiting sex roles, you chauvinist men)!" Enough already! Instead of wasting time and energy exploding what remains of the old sex-role stereotypes, let's move on to the more difficult and important task of creating new, updated sex roles. Do we really need to determine who actually did the hunting in prehistoric times or prove that women have it in them...