Word: killing
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...Miller of Wellesley College's Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies and the author of a seminal 1976 book, Toward a New Psychology of Women, says, "Women's sense of self and of worth is grounded in the ability to make and maintain relationships." When men try to kill themselves, it is commonly out of an injured sense of pride or competence, often related to work. When women attempt suicide, it is usually because of failures involving lovers, family or friends...
Most men, of course, do not rape or batter or kill. But that doesn't mean, as too many of them seem to think, that they have nothing to do with violence against women. Each of us in our daily lives helps shape the cultural images and assumptions that define the limits of the permissible. In the case of racial bigotry, we see this clearly: civilized whites don't tell racist jokes or defend the virulent gabfests on talk radio as harmless spleen venting. Where violence and misogyny are concerned, though, men just don't seem to get it. Give...
There are many ways to kill baby girls. Feeding them poisonous oleander berries, smothering them in their afterbirth or just not feeding them are among the ancient methods still in use in some rural parts of Asia, where baby boys have always been preferred. Nowadays technology also plays a role: fetal testing procedures, such as amniocentesis and sonograms, are employed by women in China, Korea, India and elsewhere to detect the sex of a fetus. Many mothers will abort a female. "Over the past century science has only quickened the pace of the death of the female child, from...
...Federal Government maintains that some conservation groups were told of the studies and agreed that they were necessary, but other environmentalists angrily reject the need for the projects. Says Allen Smith, Alaska regional director of the Wilderness Society: "I don't understand why they have to go out and kill a bunch of wildlife to prove what everybody already knows -- that a bunch of wildlife was killed...
...gulf crisis as an excuse for protecting gold-plated weapons systems of dubious military value. The House had proposed halting production of the B-2 Stealth bomber beyond the 15 currently authorized. But House-Senate conferees approved $4.1 billion to continue the program. The Pentagon has been trying to kill the vertical-takeoff V-22 Osprey aircraft, but Congress, seeking to protect jobs in 34 states, voted to spend $603 million to keep the program alive. The trouble-plagued Strategic Defense Initiative survived with a $2.9 billion appropriation, $1.6 billion less than the Administration requested. While the Pentagon sought...