Word: partiality
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...feminism was the fight for equality, did the partial victory prove worth the burning battle? The pursuit of parity makes sense only if it is a step up, not down. The quest for the Holy Groin, as it might have been called, is now superseded by the more fundamental question, "Do Women Need Men?" Or are homo saps of the male chromosomal make-up just devices like the dew claw on the dog, something evolution is shucking...
...would be a long battle against inbred, Hollywood-fed macho traditions and the fallout from TMT, Too Much Testosterone. But even a partial victory, even the possibility of imagining that pompous old goat Henry Higgins inverting his sexist question, now that might really turn women on. More than any electrode...
...million" from last year. Other programs are not eliminated, not exactly; they have their "resources redirected" to the point where they no longer exist--a euphemism that rivals "downsizing" in its gentility. Funding for potentially huge items, including such signature initiatives as a missile defense and the partial privatization of Social Security, is bumped into the mysterious "out years," which non-budgeteers refer to as "much later...
...thought maybe it was [the bones of] a monkey," he says. Beckoning the expedition's co-leader, Meave Leakey, wife and daughter-in-law, respectively, of Richard and Louis Leakey and renowned in her own right, he asked her opinion. By nightfall they realized that they had uncovered the partial remains of a humanlike skull...
...medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. Nor is there anything in the latest study to suggest that women should avoid taking hormones for a few years around menopause. However, as a practical matter, women who have a family history of ovarian cancer or have undergone a partial hysterectomy (ovaries still intact) may want to rethink their choices for long-term hormone replacement. The rest of us are just going to have to wait four years for more definitive answers...