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...sorry, Riki--"s/he" isn't a word yet) refuses to identify with either gender. And her group, the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, doesn't limit itself to trans issues. Instead, GenderPAC works to protect everyone's right to transcend gender stereotypes. A tiny niche? Tell that to the Nevada woman who was fired after she stopped wearing makeup; GenderPAC is aiding her in court. The group also helped the mother of Brandon Teena, who was killed after friends discovered he had female genitalia. (Hillary Swank played Teena in Boys Don't Cry.) "There are many people...
Where Hispanics have just arrived, they've only just begun to crack the city councils, the school boards and the county commissions. Though Hispanics account for one-fifth of Nevada's population, there are only two Latinos in the 63-member state legislature, and virtually none hold local office in the cities and counties where they are the most highly concentrated. "We're on the ground floor of political empowerment," says Gonzalez...
...Sherman graciously mentioned that it was my father that inspired him to start climbing. I was a bit taken aback since I couldn?t remember my father ever climbing anything except a stepladder. But there was that time Dad went to climbing school with my brother in the Sierra Nevada. My brother was too young to go on his own, and in an effort to become closer to his son, my Dad agreed to accompany him. He came back with his hands sliced to ribbons and stories of how he fell off the mountain three times. But my brother...
...years ago, the Institute of Medicine concluded that marijuana has potential therapeutic value. Polls show nearly three-quarters of Americans favor medical-marijuana use, and juries are increasingly reluctant to convict sick people for possession. Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii have set up state registries for medipot users; Colorado, California, Nevada and Maine are debating similar moves. Such grassroots enthusiasm carries little weight with drug warriors, who dispute the scientific data and argue that marijuana leads to hard narcotics. In an interview with TIME last week, Attorney General John Ashcroft praised the Supreme Court decision. "We can't function well...
...Environment and Public Works GOP chair: Robert Smith, New Hampshire Democratic chair: Harry Reid, Nevada, or James Jeffords, Vermont Effect of change: This was one of the Democrats? key bargaining tools with Jeffords, whose environmental stance is far more moderate than ultraconservative Smith...