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...last of what police call a "pack" robbery in Cambridge was Feb. 2, when seven males robbed a 20 year-old of his jacket and sneakers at the intersection of Harvard and Norfolk Streets...
...said the Sphinx represents their finest effort to date--something he said is due in part to their use of the recycling bins, which allowed them to pack the snow more tightly...
Obviously women, with their built-in baby incubators, will have the advantage in a monosexual future. They just have to pack up a good supply of frozen semen, a truckload of turkey basters and go their own way. But men will be catching up. For one thing, until now, frozen-and-thawed ova have been tricky to fertilize because their outer membrane gets too hard. But a new technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection makes frozen ova fully fertilizable, and so now Guy Land can have its ovum banks. As for the incubation problem, a few years ago feminist writer Gena...
...branches, plus Reform and Conservative Judaism, ordain women. (Islam does not allow female immams.) The United Methodists count 7,039 female ministers (out of 44,536 total). In 1999 the small Unitarian Universalist Association recorded a landmark: a ministry that is more than 50% female. Not every denomination will pack so many X chromosomes into the pulpit, but with female attendance at seminaries now at 33% and rising, ordinations will follow...
...perfect for compact living spaces, and the species' record of good behavior--according to the Animal Health Institute, ferrets are 200 times less likely to bite than dogs--makes them ideal first pets. Then there's the ferret's hip intellectual profile. "They're not pack animals," says Shefferman, "and they don't learn by rote, like dogs. They think creatively. They actually need intellectual stimulation." Boeing once used ferrets in aircraft assembly to run wiring through tight spaces--a skill that could come in handy when you're constructing that smart home of tomorrow...