Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Essentially, Shepard was lynched - taken from a bar, beaten and left to die because he was the vilified "other," whom society has often cast as an acceptable target of abuse; Dirkhising was just "another" to a pair of deviants. And while child abuse is unfortunately no big news, lynching still is. Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were not satisfying some animalistic sexual impulse, they were bullies who gratuitously killed someone out of hate for being different than they were. It wasn't about them, it was about Matthew Shepard. Because they dramatically reflected some of society's darkest influences...
However, if the battle is not fought in courtrooms and at clinic doors, it will be fought in other ways. Walgreens still refuses to sell emergency contraceptives like Preven, no doubt because of pressure from anti-abortionists...
...important now more than ever--as abortion is still under attack from many fronts even as new choices for women arise--that the Supreme Court address the right which it first affirmed over 25 years ago. America's women deserve no less than the full protection of their rights under...
...pointed to statistics to dispel that idea, saying that one out of every three children born in L.A. live beneath the poverty line and homicide is still the leading cause of death among children under...
American consumers are braver than they used to be about e-commerce, and yet one out of five surveyed is still uncomfortable buying on the Web. So for all the scaredy-cats out there, here's a news flash: typing your credit-card number into landsend.com is just as safe - if not safer - than reading the number to a catalog's sales rep over the phone. If you really want to go out on a limb, hand your Visa to a waiter. "Consumer fears are overblown," says David Schatsky, e-commerce analyst at Jupiter Communications. "There's not a whole...