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Pioneer feminist Betty Friedan dismisses the book as an "obsolete rehash" and criticizes Wolf for dwelling on superficialities rather than coming to grips with the modern-day political challenges that confront females. While Friedan agrees that women often go to extremes in their pursuit of good looks, enduring repeated face-lifts and possibly risking their health by having silicone injected into their breasts, she thinks Wolf's book distorts the relationship between feminism and beauty. Women, she says, do not have to choose between the two, but can delight in a frivolous enjoyment of fashion without becoming a slave...
Therein lies the fundamental difference between the movement's perceptions of American soldiers in Vietnam and their modern-day counterparts in Saudi Arabia. Unlike Vietnam veterans, individual soldiers in the Gulf are considered tragic heroes, blameless pawns caught up in a situation they cannot control...
...piece together the universe's past have two major pieces of evidence with which to work. The first is that the whole thing began with a Big Bang, an explosion of unimaginable heat and power, between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago. The second is that the modern-day cosmos is made up of galaxies. Gravity presumably played a role in the process, but the details are unknown...
Infant mortality plagues the nation like a modern-day plague...
...alive with human activity. Miniature submarines and robot-like vehicles prowl the ocean bottom while divers wend their way around incredible underwater structures -- taller than Manhattan skyscrapers but almost totally beneath the surface of the waves. This is the new geological frontier, and a daring breed of modern-day explorers is using technology worthy of Jules Verne and Jacques Cousteau to find fresh supplies of oil and natural...