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Similarly, the proportion of men who thought women were "temperamentally unfit for management" declined, from 51% in 1965 to 18% this year. Said one male corporate vice president interviewed for the survey: "Women run the gamut from poor to excellent, just as men do." Perhaps more significant, 47% of the male executives said they would feel comfortable working for a woman, compared with 27% earlier. Concluded the authors of the study: "Stereotypes once held as truth have begun slowly to crumble...
...American dinner tables. In 2001, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked farmers to voluntarily refrain from marketing any meat or milk from cloned animals or their offspring until safety was proved. A 2002 National Academy of Sciences report found "no current evidence" that cloned-animal products were unfit to eat, but it recommended more study. In 2003, the FDA declared such products "likely" safe but did not make a final ruling...
...about Bolton's precarious situation is that he may be undone more by the charges that he's a bully toward colleagues and underlings than by his strongly held conservative views about U.S. foreign policy and international institutions like the U.N. "We can't argue that this guy is unfit just because he's said mean things about the U.N.," conceded a top Senate Democrat. "Don't forget, most Americans agree with him." Though troubling to some Republicans, even allegations that Bolton has a tendency to exaggerate intelligence to suit his ideological preconceptions--and intimidate analysts who challenge...
...turmoil faced by penitentiaries and local jails across the U.S. In April a Justice Department study reported prison overcrowding was worse than ever, with 463,866 men and women jammed into facilities that are filled to twice their capacity. Prisons in a record 37 states have been found unfit by the federal courts. Meanwhile, the bloodshed born of such stock-pen conditions is spreading beyond the wire-topped walls of prisons, clogging the entire criminal-justice system, forcing the early release of dangerous convicts and cycling their pent-up rage back into the streets...
...lower the costs of enjoying so much liberty for so long, a lot of them--me, for one--are suffering from a nagging sense of loss. The open range was fenced in long ago, but the hell-raising atmosphere lingered on. It was a smoky, boozy atmosphere, unfit for sensitive, rigid, allergic types, but it did allow a person to breathe deeply. And to cough a lot too, of course; that was also part of it (maybe that's a reason cowboys wore red neckerchiefs). Those breaths will be easier now--in bars, especially--but perhaps our hearts...