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...often labeled a feminist. However, your poll shows that less than 30% of women today consider themselves feminists. The term feminist, it appears, is almost regarded as an insult, reserved for women who want to conquer the world and all its men. But a woman's success is seldom a point she wants to "rub in" to members of the opposite sex. She may wish to be viewed as an individual, not as a representative of her gender. Sadly, our society is one that cannot differentiate between someone's proving a point as a woman and proving herself...
...those temperamentally inclined to endless research. The entire question of how best to spend our resources needs to be debated because we are proceeding on blind faith that is unsupported by positive results after decades of research. Scientists continue to work with mice, knowing that what is learned seldom applies to humans. The cancer-research juggernaut has been rolling for way too long now, costing too many dollars and too many lives. LAWRENCE BLAKELY BARNES Bangkok...
...very first thing Juan Romero wants you to know is that this isn't about him. "It's about Bobby," he says with eyes so shy they seldom lock onto you. "I'll do anything I have to if it keeps his name alive." Juan is 47 now, and the boy is gone. He is darkly handsome and strong, and his hands are callused because he works for a paving company, drives trucks, rakes asphalt. He has just got off work, and he slides into a booth at a little restaurant near his home in San Jose, Calif. For years...
...NAME] B.B. KING [JOB] Blues singer [WHY IN THE NEWS] Won a Grammy in 1997 [DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC] Seldom actually seems blue [FREQUENTLY PHOTOGRAPHED] With his guitar Lucille...
Aside from its historical significance, however, Harvard's victory elicited the type of reaction seldom evoked by a sporting event, especially here in Cambridge. Thousands of students gathered around any television set they could find in the wee hours of the morning on March 15, 1998--the game began shortly after 9 p.m. Western Time, midnight on the East Coast--to watch their women's basketball team make history...