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...feminists haven’t always been responsive to the concerns of working-class women. American feminism as a social movement has been located in the white middle class, and the leaders of the feminist mainstream are only starting to think through the ways that race, class and gender intersect to marginalize women of color. Feminism often valorizes women who can take days off from work in order to attend a protest, while effectively ignoring women who cannot be so cavalier about losing a day’s wages. On the other hand, American labor movements from the big national...
...home to. And then there's freshly divorced Lily (Chang), who gets back into the swing of the single life with gusto, only to discover that when you're approaching middle age, you can't outdance loneliness in a discotheque. The very modern ladies of 20:30:40 barely intersect, but director Chang ably guides her characters to a common realization: that independence has to come before love or success...
Chemistry and history intersect in this steroid story. "Most of the drugs of abuse came to the marketplace as great advances in medicine," says Dr. Gary Wadler, a New York University professor of medicine and member of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Jocks may even have been among the first users of the hormone EPO, which some athletes have been taking to improve endurance...
...meantime, several professors, including Payne, study fields that intersect with the Italian Renaissance...
...Colombo, Sri Lanka's busy commercial capital, the disco-loving night crawlers tend to be far removed from the city's working class. But there is one place where their two worlds intersect: Hotel de Pilawoos. No evening out in Colombo is complete without an after-midnight pit stop by this grungy eatery on the Galle Road. If you're put off by the rust-ridden iron furniture and curry-stained floors (Pilawoos doesn't win awards for hygiene), then follow the example of the local ?lite and chow down in the comfort of your car. Any time...