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What is feminism and is it likely to ruin your daughter's life? One hesitates to jump into the latest catfight around this question, but with so much at stake, temptation overwhelms. It all started when Christina Hoff Sommers, a philosophy professor at Clark University, came out in June with a book called Who Stole Feminism? Its point is that feminism has been derailed by a bunch of neurotic, self-indulgent intellectuals who have a direct personal interest in grossly overstating the woes of womankind. In women's studies classes, young women are indoctrinated to believe they are downtrodden when...
...possible successors to Deng are mostly more liberal than the aging leader, but the dynamics of China's upper echelons of government are still nebulous to observers from the West. Acting alone, China could throw the whole world into ruin. A coordination with North Korea's forces would not achieve much more than a bankhead on the southeast coast of Asia. In any case, North Korea is expendable except as one of three strictly Communist or Socialist nations on the continent...
...deserted mill with endless rows of silent weaving machines. As a German television crew watched, he delivered one of his patented anti-Western tirades. "This factory stands idle because of Western interference in our affairs!" he shouted, shaking his finger directly at the German camera. "You have worked to ruin this country...
...aura of romance, making wine is an enterprise fraught with woes -- both man-made and natural. Government regulators have been acting lately as if wine were as much of a health hazard as tobacco. Even in sunny, bountiful California, frosts can shrivel vulnerable young grape buds. Untimely rains can ruin a harvest. And periodically, vineyards are assaulted by plagues of voracious insects...
...ONLY after 5 years if too few Americans are covered. Key Republicans on the committee predict they'll successfully defeat the thing Wednesday, prompting TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson to speculate that Moynihan (with White House coaxing) has set up the GOP members to be the spoilers who ruin health-care reform's chances...