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...Grand Forks, North Dakota, eventually utters: You sure can't beat the quality of life here. Never mind that it's like Siberia for half the year and that the only rise in the land is the curve of the planet. Nature can be a witch, they would admit--even before the 500-year flood that submerged the town last week, forcing the evacuation of 50,000 people and sparking fires that destroyed half the historic business district. Still, you just can't beat it. And it took no more than a day or two of watching Grand Forks begin...
Hooray for Ellen DeGeneres! It is hard being gay, and it is especially hard to admit publicly that you are [TELEVISION, April 14]. Ellen's coming out will help everyone else see that gays are not freaks but are normal and sometimes even famous. No one chooses to be gay; we are born that way. But even in today's world, there are folks who are still closed-minded. A lot of us work hard to hide our sexuality for fear of being outcast, harassed or fired. Ellen has helped us take a step in the right direction. NAME WITHHELD...
...automatic cost of living adjustment (COLA) would guarantee a yearly adjustment for market dips, but opponents compare it to writing a blank check, and supporters admit that the actual cost of living could rise more than the fixed COLA adjustment...
Harvard University has a problem, and everyone seems anxious to admit it: the number of tenured women professors is unacceptably small...
...remember setting off for Russia with a rather strong sense of what it means to be a feminist. I admit that I had a sort of Western superiority complex in that I didn't understand how, in these times, a woman could stay at home with the children and feel whole. "If I did that," I thought, "I would certainly feel as if I was missing out on half of life's experiences." I thought that I would be a little imperialist and teach Russian women to be liberated. What a disgusting idea, especially since exactly the opposite happened--they...