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Perhaps most telling of the times, roughly half of the new female legislators have no political experience. They wooed voters by calling themselves "ordinary women" and "mothers and housewives," and campaigned on such issues as education, welfare and ridding the political system of corruption. "Let the voice from the kitchen be heard in government," said Nobuko Mori, 57, a winning candidate from western Okayama...
Hochschild describes what she calls a stalled revolution, with both men and women following "gender strategies" that prevent progress. Traditional men, those who believe that women should tend children and kitchen even when the family money squeeze forces them to take jobs, actually do more chores in the home than the "transitional" husbands. But transitional couples, caught between new ideology and old sex roles, may cooperate in believing a family myth that the husband does half the babyminding and the chores. In fact, only 20% of Hochschild's couples, who ranged from working class to upper middle class, split household...
While fond of his cat, British biologist Peter Churcher looked askance at its practice of dragging small mammals and birds into his Bedfordshire house and devouring them under the kitchen table "to the sound of crunching bones." One of Churcher's associates, John Lawton, a professor of community ecology at the University of London, was similarly impressed by his own cat's predatory pursuits. With the natural curiosity of true scientists, they decided to look further into the depredations of felines. If all the domestic cats in Britain caught as much prey as theirs did, the two men reasoned, they...
...auctioned off for $1,600 to $2,000 apiece, along with the property of 33 other failed Southwestern thrifts. A 1957 Bentley automobile went for $10,050. Besides computers and other office equipment, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation also sold hand- carved ivory tusks and even two kitchen sinks...
...Spots Location Temperature Harvard Square 99oF. Adams House E-Entry 92 Claverly Hall, fifth floor 114 Weld Hall, fifth floor 94 Widener Library stacks 94 Pusey Library 76 Lamont Library 76 Stone steps outside Lamont 112 President's house, 17 Quincy st. 84 Steamiest corner of the Harvard Union kitchen 110 Production shop at The Crimson...