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While biology mandates that a woman nurse and rear a child for the first few months of its life, child care that day care centers provide may be shared equally by men and women. While society may not have caught up with an ideal, the staff seems to be blindly acquiescent to the status...
...From the rear seat, his 14-year-old brother chimed in. "You know, Andrew, that these people are totally crazy, right?" And from the front seat, my aunt made a disapproving sound and suggested that we "read something more cheery." But before I could turn to the sports pages, Andrew had posed a question society at large has been too self-confident to consider: "What if they are right?" came his innocent voice...
...then sell the extras overseas. The problem is that the Air Force says it needs the plane to counter, in part, U.S. airplanes that have been sold overseas. Then, of course, General Ralston could add the F-22 to his chart of potentially hostile foreign warplanes. Says former Navy rear admiral and aviator Eugene Carroll Jr. of the private Center for Defense Information: "We're in an arms race--with ourselves...
...important than nature in determining gender roles. Babies are born gender neutral, the experts said. Catch them early enough, and you can make them anything you want. Widely cited in medical and social-science textbooks, the baby's transformation helped pediatricians confidently advise other parents facing similar circumstances to rear their wounded boys as girls...
Harvard got on the board in the closing minutes of the first quarter when the Crimson man-up squad capitalized on a slashing penalty. Freshman Lawson DeVries drew the undermanned defense towards the rear of the cage and hit a cutting Ferrucci for the score...