Word: sides
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...woman than a female. Thanks to 30 years of feminist striving, the category "woman" has expanded to include anchorpersons, soccer moms, astronauts, fire fighters, even the occasional Senator or Secretary of State. But "female" still tends to connote the oozing, bleeding, swelling, hot-flashing, swamp-creature side of the species, its tiny brain marinating in the primal hormonal broth. From Aristotle to Freud, the thinking on gender has been that only one sex had fully evolved out of the tidal pool, and it wasn't the sex that wears panty hose...
...discovery, which is too recent to have found its way into Angier's or Hales' book, will disconcert many feminists as well as sociobiologists. After all, the gratifying thing about man-the-hunter was that he helped locate all the violence and related mischief on the men's side of the campfire: no blood on our hands! But there are other reasons to doubt the eternal equation of masculinity with aggression and violence, femininity with gentleness and a taste for green salads. In ancient Greece and Sumer the deities of the hunt, Artemis and Ninhursag, were female--extremely female...
What happened in Jasper stands slightly to one side of the usual argument about capital punishment. It mobilizes different issues of justice. Here, racial payback overrides the familiar philosophical dilemma presented by executions...
...confess that I have puzzled for years over the death penalty. At times I have defended it, at times argued against it. I am thus only half civilized--and to make things worse, am not even sure on which side civilization lies. If I were a state's Governor, I would have to choose one or the other on certain midnights of the year when executioners awaited my go-ahead. As it is, I have the luxury to persist in ambivalence, going case by case, preserving the option of the noose...
...five studies had the best results with a platinum-based drug, like cisplatin. Side effects of this treatment include nausea, vomiting and low red and white blood-cell counts, but not hair loss...