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Charles Epstein was sitting at the kitchen table when his daughter Joanna brought in the padded brown envelope with the day's mail. He saw nothing unusual about the package, but when Epstein, a geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, opened the package, it exploded. Rushed to the hospital, Epstein lost several fingers on his right hand, broke an arm and suffered severe abdominal injuries...
...that between employer and servant. There is no squeamishness involved in taking your clothes to the dry cleaner. If domestic service were generally provided by business firms (ideally, co-ops of the workers themselves) with all the trappings of a business relationship (monthly bills instead of cash on the kitchen table, etc.), the arrangement would be more dignified for both parties. It would also provide household workers some of the benefits -- such as reliable Social Security enjoyed by those of us who work in the grownup economy...
...manager of the central College kitchen prompted complaints from his employees when he hired only men to clean the kitchen over Spring Break. Berry reversed the decision and reprimanded the manager, who said he was trying protect his female employees from the "noxious fumes" of cleaning chemicals...
...just find it extremely difficult to celebrate belonging to a church that actively excludes women from higher [ranks] of membership, has conducted a 2,000-year-old campaign to ensure that women remain barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen and views homosexuals as unnatural and deviant...," he declares...
UNTIL THE FOURTH grade, Toomer had her career track pretty much decided: the cute eight-year old from Northridge, California planned to become a brain sargeon. But one day, she walked into the kitchen and made a surprise announcement to her parents. "I said I wanted to be a singer, and they were shocked. I hadn't sung before," Toomer recalls...