Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peres' other problem is the strength of Labor's main political opposition. No fewer than 23 parties are contesting the election. They range from the Communists (who will pick up most of the Israeli Arab protest vote) to a weird fringe group whose main platform plank demands sexual satisfaction for women. Labor's strongest challenger is the Likud (Unity) coalition, which had 40 seats in the last Knesset. Next is the brand new middle-of-the-road Democratic Movement for Change. Polls indicate that it might win at least 12 seats...
...usually been regarded as a shameful family secret, infrequently reported and rarely prosecuted. In fact, Italian courts often absolved the rapist if the girl agreed to marry him. In recent years the number of reported rapes has been on the decline-partly, experts theorize, as a result of increased sexual freedom among young people. But Rome has recently been shocked by a rash of vicious gang rapes like the one involving Claudia Caputi...
...public career might support those descriptions, but Abrahamsen makes his mountains of childhood molehills. When Nixon was a boy, he would lie awake at night, listening to whistles of passing trains and fantasizing about faraway places. This wanderlust, which continued in adulthood, was an outlet for "frustrated sexual desires." Young Nixon was also adept at mashing potatoes without leaving any lumps; Abrahamsen writes that he "chose to release his energy" in this "unusual" way to win his mother's love. The "extent and intensity" of the mashing suggests "aggression" against the potatoes, "a substitute for people...
Molecular biology's wizards have managed to cross that obstacle in their work with bacteria. Unlike higher organisms, bacteria are single-celled creatures that usually reproduce not by sexual mating but by simply dividing. Thus their ability to acquire new and possibly advantageous genes would seem to be highly limited. But the tiny creatures have devised a cunning alternative. Besides their single, large, ringed chromosome (which is the repository of most of their genes), they possess much smaller closed loops of DNA, called plasmids-which consist of only a few genes. This extra bit of DNA-genetic small change...
...this spring, lawyers are asking the court to require due-process protections before a child can be committed to a mental institution by his parents. The case was brought on behalf of five minors who were placed by their parents in a Pennsylvania mental institution for truancy, drug use, sexual misbehavior and other reasons. Their attorney insisted that the children should not have been committed simply on the say so of their parents, and demanded various precommitment safeguards, including a hearing. But state officials worry that such procedures could deprive parents of the right to supervise the upbringing of their...