Word: woman
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When an old Passamaquoddy Indian woman in Maine 20 years ago asked her tribal governor to look at some ancient, fragile documents she had in a cardboard box under her bed, she had no idea that they might be important. Yet one of the items in her cache was the 1794 treaty that her ancestors had struck with Massachusetts; in it, they ceded virtually all their land to the state. The find set off what has since become one of the largest Indian land claims in modern U.S. history. The 3,500 Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians in what...
...parents had suggested a career as a high school teacher-good security for a woman-but Ruth Ginsburg believes that sex barriers are to be toppled. As one of four unpaid general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, Ginsburg argued-and last week won-her fourth major Supreme Court women's rights case, promising equal benefits for widows and widowers under Social Security. Her successful strategy: "To attack the most pervasive stereotype in the law-that men are independent and women are men's dependents." Ginsburg encourages her students to join in preparing her cases. Such experience...
...fault divorce. She teaches courses in family law, sex discrimination (she and Ruth Ginsburg collaborated on a widely used casebook on the subject), and joins with Berkeley Anthropologist Laura Nader in a seminar on anthropology and the law. Often mentioned as a candidate to become the first woman Supreme Court Justice, Kay believes that law school should turn out students who are "able to separate the relevant from the irrelevant and focus on the core of a problem." In her office hangs a portrait of former Israeli Premier Golda Meir with the caption, "But can she type...
Peering deep into the womb of a pregnant woman, doctors have succeeded in exploring and filming-at a remarkably early stage of development-the secret world of the living human embryo. The results of their efforts are the dramatic highlight of an hour-long CBS television special, The Miracle Months, which will be broadcast on March 16 at 8 p.m. E.S.T. Written by Physician-Author Robert E. Fuisz, Miracle Months is a moving, prime-time tribute to recent spectacular progress in prenatal care-advances that enable doctors to salvage many pregnancies for which there was once little or no hope...
...Hogwash and bullshit," says New York Psychiatrist Judianne Densen-Gerber, J.D., M.D., who has, along with her two degrees, her career and her four children, some very definite opinions about a woman who would subscribe to those lines at the end of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew...