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...boys became more confused. The education system too shifted toward favoring girls and feminist culture, until girls were doing better in school than boys. Fortunately, enough boys seem to survive these disadvantages to take their appropriate place in society as adults. Despite feminist assertions and much "affirmative action," the vast majority of prominent leaders and outstanding exponents of "hard" sciences like physics remain males. Bill Martin, Valentine, New South Wales...
WITH A LANDMARK 1961 book, The Destruction of the European Jews, Raul Hilberg argued that the Holocaust had resulted not from a single preconceived plan by Adolf Hitler but from a vast bureaucracy involving thousands of minor characters and decisions. In doing so, Hilberg pioneered the academic study of the Holocaust and established himself as its pre-eminent scholar...
...mafia, has countered by recruiting members of San Pedro's SWAT unit. More than 200 police officers in Monterrey and Nuevo León have been either arrested or investigated for involvement in organized crime this year. "We never imagined the penetration of drug trafficking in our society was this vast," says San Pedro's Marg?...
...vast majority of people, the treatment never needs to go so far. OCD, for all the suffering it inflicts, is nothing more than the brain doing something it's supposed to do--warning you of danger--but doing it very badly. Living in the world means living with risks: real ones, imagined ones, exaggerated ones. That's not an easy lesson, but it's a powerful lesson--one that, once learned, can offer a paradoxical state of peace...
...While everybody on Rice's itinerary is welcoming the White House initiative to revive peace talks, unless she is able to bridge the vast gulf between their positions on what needs to be negotiated right now, the planned peace conference in the fall may amount to little more than a photo opportunity. -With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem and Aaron J. Klein/Tel Aviv