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...time of their invention, women were such adept swimmers that the first woman to swim across the English Channel, Gertrude Ederle, shattered all previous records held by male swimmers. American women looked up to athletes like Ederle and wore bikinis to emulate these strong female role models...
After playing a combination guard role for the Crimson—both as his team’s primary scoring threat and playmaker—Lin has realized that he will have to move to point guard to continue his career...
...chairs a NATO expert group on the psychological and social aspects of terrorism. "When they commit acts of terror, people start asking themselves, 'What would make a woman go there and do that?' This is already a huge propaganda victory." Speckhard adds, "If you put a woman into the role of carrying out violence - if you make her look like she's bereaved, she's suffering - you suddenly get your message across much more effectively." (After the Moscow bombings, a new cycle of retaliation...
Women in such circumstances, says Speckhard, tend to be recruited because they are in search of "psychological first aid." Working most often over the Internet, the recruiters play the role of a father to women left vulnerable by abuse or other trauma. "To an extent it does help them. It's like a drug. It's short-lived. It gives you relief, but it's not a solution. And just like a drug addiction, it often ends tragically," says Speckhard, who has interviewed more than 300 perpetrators of terrorism, their victims and their loved ones for her book Talking...
...ease of finding such women over the Internet, and their usefulness to terrorist groups, suggest that the role of women in jihadist movements will continue to grow. Even ultraconservative groups like al-Qaeda, which had long avoided recruiting women, have come around to the tactic, says Mia Bloom, author of Bombshell: Women and Terror. In Russia the problem is particularly acute, as more than 50% of the country's suicide attacks have been committed by women, compared with about 30% globally. Far more than those of male bombers, their attacks also speed the flow of new recruits and money into...