Word: sociologists
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...Those wishing to savor the visual delights of Hefner?s world should thumb through ?Playboy 50 Years: the Photographs,? with text by Joe Peterson.There the amateur sociologist will be able to gauge seismic shifts in both sexual tolerance and body fashion...
...Paris when the award was announced in October, and when she returned to Tehran, thousands of Iranians, mainly women, turned out at the airport to welcome her home with tears, songs and carnations. "I don't have the same courage as Mrs. Ebadi," says Zahra, a 60-year-old sociologist. "But now when I walk in the street, I stand taller." Ebadi's Nobel is proof that while Muslim women continue to endure severe inequality, many are nonetheless making remarkable efforts to reshape their own lives as well as the societies that shackle them. Ebadi's have special significance, because...
...also a leading Latin American sociologist and a professor-at-large at the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University...
...charges of spying for Taiwan became an international incident. Human-rights groups trumpeted her cause and U.S. President George W. Bush complained to then Chinese President Jiang Zemin. A few days before U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell landed in Beijing for a visit in July 2001, the sociologist was released and returned to a hero's welcome in Washington...
...that hate crimes are not simply caused by poverty or ignorance; often they grow out of a combination of high youth unemployment, the presence of many new immigrants, and a lack of law enforcement. It is this third element that is easiest to remedy. But, says Jack Levin, a sociologist at Northeastern University in Boston who has written extensively on hate crime in Europe and America, "the police in Europe haven't been trained to recognize hate crime." 8 P.M., SATURDAY PRITZWALK, GERMANY Andy Gaschler, a 16-year-old high school student, was walking with friends in the pedestrian marketplace...