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Ever since, track promoters have sought a rematch, and when it was finally set for London's Crystal Palace last week (with each woman receiving a reported $25,000 to appear), the entire schedule of the Peugeot-Talbot Games was rejiggered so that the confrontation could be seen live on American TV. For those who wondered how the Olympic race would have turned out, last Saturday's race seemed for its first half an eerie replay. Slaney (Decker married British Discus Thrower Richard Slaney on New Year's Day) took the lead from the start, as she likes...
...inspired by the London-based International Wages for Housework Campaign, whose organizers attended the NGO forum. The group of activist homemakers has called for a oneday, worldwide housework strike on Oct. 24 to demand government salaries for cooking, cleaning and child care. As radical as the notion may appear, it dramatizes a discouraging fact: domestic labor, seen everywhere as women's work, is universally undervalued. Indeed, according to a recent survey by Economist Ruth Leger Sivard, director of World Priorities, a Washington-based think tank, the cash value of the unpaid labor of women represents $4 trillion a year, equivalent...
...would appear to be a mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes. If OPEC is reeling and the price of crude oil is falling, then why has the cost of gasoline been going up? The Los Angeles-based Lundberg Letter shows that since February the average retail price for all grades of gas has jumped from $1.14 per gal. to $1.24, taking some of the fun out of summer driving...
...paper's hallmark remains the factoid, a short fact or statistic that appears halfway into a story to buttress a point or offer an example. Factoids: Appear in clusters. Can be as short as a few words or as long as several paragraphs. Always have this little...
...Some appear perfectly pedestrian, with the warm white fur and beady pink eyes of pet-store mice. Others are clearly extraordinary, waddling about on paws shaped like miniature dolphin flippers or swollen to the size of their larger relative, the rat. They are called transgenic mice, and in a nobly selfless fashion, they are revolutionizing modern biology. Hidden somewhere along the twisting chain of DNA found in every cell of their bodies are alien genes, injected by biologists. The study of these mutants and the effects of the interloping genes may help provide answers to such fundamental questions as what...