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What was wrong with me? With us? Hadn’t feminism gotten rid of this problem, this lack of confidence? Instead, when I talked to my mother, I learned that women at Harvard were actually more confident in their social lives when the sexual revolution was still a fringe phenomenon...
...seems like a pain in the neck," says Rosalie Labovitch, a fashion consultant from West London, who wanted to sell a cashmere dressing gown but didn't want to deal with the nuts and bolts of the process. "I lead a very busy life. I just want to get rid." With no time to write a blurb and take digital photos of the gown, submit them to eBay, monitor the auction, and await payment before shipping the item, Labovitch instead brought her gown to Auctioning4u - a two-year-old London company that did it all for her. The firm...
...name, invicta, means invincible, and so far no affected country has managed to eradicate an infestation of the 2- to 6-mm-long ant. "I hate them," says Keith McCubbin, director of the Queensland Fire Ant Control Centre, which is spending $136 million on a six-year campaign to rid Australia of what he calls "some of the evilest creatures God put on Earth." Last week, the ants were discovered in Hong Kong, probably arriving via southern mainland China, where infestation had gone previously unannounced...
...Pakistan. Our country is a key, vital partner of the U.S. in the war on terrorism. President Pervez Musharraf has ordered more than 70,000 troops to police Pakistan's southwestern border with Afghanistan. The President has repeatedly made it clear that he will spare no effort to rid Pakistan of all inimical foreign elements. Talat Waseem, Press Counselor Embassy of Pakistan to the U.S. Washington Is God in Our Genes? Your story [Nov. 29] asks, "did humans create religion from cues sent from above, or did evolution instill in us a sense of the divine so that we would...
SARGENT: Anytime you tell your merchandising team, "We're going to get rid of 800 items," they'll say, "Our sales are going to go down." My argument was, If you can be in stock in the good stuff that people really need and look for, maybe your sales will go up. The end result: we just had our 12th quarter in a row of more than 20% earnings growth...