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...When some of these girls marry abusive husbands or encounter discrimination in the workplace, will they assert their rights or just keep quiet? I would much rather see young girls doing an activity that helps them learn they are something more than a sexual object. Purity balls produce the very type of girl who ends up thinking her value lies only in her appeal to men. Linda L. Rasmussen, San Diego...
Bill Gates writes in this magazine that he wants big corporations to do more for the world's poor. He calls this "creative capitalism." Who could possibly object...
...general reaction to Gates' proposals has been positive. Certainly no one can seriously object to his putting these issues on the table. His timing is excellent: there is growing interest, especially among young people, in helping the world's poorest. Even the most troglodytic corporation is feeling pressure to be green (and to pretend, at least, to be excited about it). The parade of corporate scandals continues, and capitalism's need for a bit of image repair continues alongside. It's a perfect moment for the biggest corporate titan of all time to turn his attention to problems that software...
...Brennan Huff (Ferrell). Seemingly deficient in intelligence, and lacking the most rudimentary of social skills, Dale and Brennan feel hate at first sight as quickly as their parents found love. Their resentment comes from territorial rivalry, but even more the fear that their comfortable situation, of being the sole object of a parent's pampering, is over right now. Learn to share - that's the implicit command. Play well with others. Two words: grow...
...escape the boost phase and enter midcourse flight present an overwhelming problem. By that time they have released their re-entry vehicles (warheads aimed at U.S. targets), as well as thousands of decoys and reflective metal scraps known as chaff, forming a threat cloud of up to 1 million objects. The challenge for a defense during this 20-minute midcourse flight is to pick the RVs out of this debris and disable them. Infrared sensors are ineffective at this stage, so recent research has concentrated on an interactive sensor, a stream of highly accelerated uncharged atomic particles that would penetrate...