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...mean, I don't think any of this is conscious. I've noticed the tendency to refer to Naomi Wolf, me and Gloria Steinem as the quote-unquote yuppie feminists. It's this phenomenon where two or three women are picked out as feminist spokespeople, are elevated and then trashed in hopes that 'well, we've attacked them, gotten them out of the way, so feminism itself can be discredited...
Demographers refer to such collisions between rising demand and diminishing resources as "train wrecks." As the world adds new billions of people in ever shorter periods, such potential conflicts happen almost everywhere. With most of the world's good land already under plow, a population of 11 billion human beings would probably have to make do with less than half the arable land per capita that exists today. That would set the stage for disaster, as farmers stripped nutrients from the soil, exacerbated erosion and gobbled up water and wild lands...
Henaghan refused to comment yesterday. "We'vebeen told to refer all questions about specificincidents to Chief Johnson," he said...
...Some refer to her childhood in Antigua, an island in the West Indies...
...requires that reports be made of all civil restraining orders and criminal domestic violence offenses, and that judges refer to them when issuing restraining orders. If the records show multiple previous offenses by the defendant, the judge is required to notify law enforcement officials...