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...world's biggest builder of nuclear power plants. Reappointed this summer for five more years, she vows to make nukes a clean, safe choice for the post-oil future. Muriel Mayette Head Of La Comedie-Francaise Last month she became administrator general of the prestigious state theater, a male redoubt since its founding in 1680. She told Le Monde she intends to make it "a symbolic fiefdom for the defense of French culture." Laurence Parisot President Of Medef The CEO of the marketing firm IFOP has brought an unpatriarchal touch to France's main confederation of employers since her election...
...year after year passed without a royal pregnancy, hopes that Masako would become the modern face of the imperial family gradually died. It was clear that she had failed in her one traditional duty: to produce a male heir. All her education and accomplishments meant nothing by comparison. Japanese tabloids cast aspersions on her patriotism and her toughness, and not long after she gave birth to a daughter, Aiko, in December 2001, Masako sank into a depression. Now she has gone from an icon of style to an object of pity. "She's been crushed," says housewife Hiroko Nishiyama...
...Sadly, Americans still prefer women with curves rather than nerves. We rush to mock (as your cover blatantly did) any woman with bold opinions and vision. But the joke is on us because we lose every time we permit ourselves to shrink the pool of qualified candidates, female or male, to a collection of shallow and weak-minded individuals who are more likely to muddle in mediocrity than dare to dream...
Please refresh my memory. When was the last time you had a "love him or hate him" poll for a potential male President? Distasteful at best, sexist at worst...
...cruciate ligament (ACL), a piece of connective tissue that helps hold the knee together. The difference can be dramatic. A recent study by researchers at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in Manhattan determined that adolescent female athletes were eight times as likely to injure their ACL as their male counterparts...