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Despite the poor run that afternoon, Killington does offer some excellent skiing for all levels. The only problem is that it is so spread out. Experts will be more than challenged at "Bear Mountain," and there is plenty of terrain for beginners as well. Of course, some people might find the commercialized scene and number of bars in the Killington area a draw back. An hour and a half north lies Sugarbush, with fewer bars and singles but an equivalent amount of snow and great trails...
...Handmaid's Tale--her best-selling "visionary" novel in the style of 1984 and Brave New World--Atwood always writes about women struggling against or attempting to survive the oppression of men. The titles of her novels, The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, bear this...
Atwood derives the notion of the "handmaid" from the passage in Genesis where Rachel--in order to compensate for her sterility--gives Jacob her handmaid to bear him children. Atwood's notions need updating. Biblical times have passed and so have the outraged...
...well, mixed emotions are the only kind that seem fitting to bring to the New Jersey courtroom where a landmark case involving custody of a 9 1/2-month-old infant is being heard. Mary Beth Whitehead thought she knew herself in 1985, when she contracted, as a surrogate mother, to bear a child for William and Elizabeth Stern. But her certainties crumbled when she gave birth last March to the girl she calls Sara, the Sterns call Melissa and court papers call Baby M. In hours of emotional testimony last week, Whitehead told the court that the experience of childbirth "overpowered...
...first birthday, almost certainly before she has her last name. It is unconscionable, unacceptable for her, but the questions her case raises are painful and daunting. When the opportunities that technology provides bring dilemmas in their wake, technology rarely provides answers to them. In the end, only people bear children. People will have to bear the consequences...