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...Transforming Today's Women, which suggests that the national conversation is about to have a hot flash. The passage through middle age of so large a clump of women - there are roughly 43 million American women ages 40 to 60 - guarantees that some rules may have to be rewritten and boundaries moved to accommodate them. That was part of the inspiration for Shellenbarger's book. "I thought I could help other women see this coming in their lives," Shellenbarger says, "and not only avoid doing damage to others but capitalize...
...friends noticed in their various outposts around the world. If every Harvard junior came back bringing a little bit of that lifestyle to our campus, how different it would be. And if Larry Summers had spent a semester abroad as he wished, who knows how Harvard history might be rewritten...
Members of the Danbury town council still aren't convinced. After debating a house-party ordinance last month, they voted unanimously to send it back to the subcommittee to be rewritten to give greater recognition to parental authority. Joel Urice, a council member, calls the proposed ordinance "Orwellian" and says that while the town's intent is to stop binge drinking and unsupervised house parties, "this doesn't get at the problem. Instead, it usurps parents' rights to raise and manage children in the way they see fit in their own home." He mentions, for example, that if a teenager...
...family planning." In 1988 the Pope, despite standing up for female workers, asked women not to compromise their feminine "originality," which he identified with their God-given role as mothers. He ordered a draft of the English translation of his landmark revision of the church's catechism to be rewritten to remove gender-neutral language. References to "humanity" and "men and women" were out, and back in went "mankind." "Although he was second to none in talking about women and honoring women as mothers and nurturers," says former Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, a practicing Catholic, "the flip side is that...
Hubble is to our generation what the moon missions were to our parents’. Its pictures have rewritten astronomy textbooks as surely as they have provided the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with its most recognizable mascot. Though Hubble can’t coin everlasting phrases like, “One small step for man…,” it still has the right stuff. And now its days are numbered...