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...discussing the intricacy of the transgenderism debate and the slippery slope towards which it is unavoidably heading, participants must at all times act with the sensitivity that the topic of transgenderism and that the individuals it affects deserve. Tolerance and sensitivity should be non-partisan ideals to be embraced by conservatives and liberals, alike...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz, | Title: The Transgender Trap? | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...guest list over the years has been a veritable Who's Who of the radical right. Tim McVeigh called Elohim two weeks before the Oklahoma bombing. Some reports link him to former Elohim resident Andreas Strassmeir, a mysterious German weapons buff with neo-Nazi ties. And up a wooded slope in the settlement, marked by a simple white cross, is the grave of Richard Wayne Snell, a fanatic who allegedly conspired to blow up the Oklahoma City federal building 12 years earlier. He was executed the night of April 19, 1995, about 12 hours after the explosion. Kevin McCarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE CITY ON A HILL | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...much of their digging, Mary worked her fossil-hunting magic again 10 years later. While Louis lay feverish in his tent, she burst in, shouting "I've got him! I've got him--our man!" The find, consisting of two bulges of brown fossilized molars protruding from a slope, turned out to be the skull of a 1.75 million-year-old human ancestor the Leakeys called Zinjanthropus ("Man from East Africa"). The discovery, notes paleoanthropologist F. Clark Howell of the University of California, Berkeley, marked the start of "the truly scientific study of the evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARY NICOL LEAKEY: 1913-1996: FIRST LADY OF FOSSILS | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...life advocates seized upon the crime as the logical end to the slippery slope of abortion rights. It offered an occasion to revisit the effort to close a "health of mother" loophole that allows partial-birth abortions, not just for women in dire straits but teenagers who have changed their minds. You don't have to be persuaded that the difference between what Amy and Brian did and a third-trimester abortion is only time (a couple of weeks) and place (a $56-a-night motel rather than a clinic) to retreat to a dark corner of your conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDREN WITHOUT SOULS | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...GURULE (D) District 3 (Western Slope--Pueblo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: COLORADO | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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