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Though it sounds like the plot from the science fiction flick Them, in which giant ants threaten mankind, the green-ant menace is serious to the aborigines...
...afraid to be successful, afraid to compete with men. Her subjects, male and female college students, described successful women as neurotic, over-aggressive, and generally unhappy. Achievement in a man's world seemed to conflict with society's demand that women be "feminine," good mothers and wives, and never threaten...
...suspended no fewer than five times-for drinking, being late to games, and disobeying the formidable commissioner of baseball, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. (He did not, as has often been reported, hold the Yankees' minuscule manager Miller Muggins off the rear platform of a train or threaten to drop him. But he might have...
More strikes threaten. Aerospace industry bargaining has just got under way. Later this year there will be contract talks covering 500,000 railroad workers. In November, just in time for winter, 80,000 mine workers will be seeking a new contract. They may try to hold down output so that supplies could fall perilously low and managements feel pressure to settle generously...
...could be an evolution explosion in the wet season," said Herpetologist Michael Tyler. "It could get into billa-bongs [river pools] and replace the native species." Worse still, added John Lake, director of the Northern Territory's Department of Forestry, Fisheries, Wild Life and National Parks, "it would threaten our smaller native species-and that's equivalent to threatening the koala and the platypus...