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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...mentality are numbered. Last week Britain ceased % to be an island for the first time since the end of the last Ice Age, when meltwater covered the land bridge joining the British Isles to the mainland. On Oct. 30 a team of workers at the face of the French section of the service tunnel that is being bored 131 ft. below the bed of the Channel waited for a thin steel probe, drilled from the British side, to pierce the wall of chalk marl in front of them. The 2-in.-diameter aperture opened by the probe could...
...Critics," said Rigg, "are at best lovers of theatre. At worst, they are absconded from the sports section into the arts...
...Finding the Lesbians, author Janelle Lavelle claims she and her friends have "managed to find other dykes in such alien places as: a Liberty Bible College rally (the campus Jerry Falwell calls home); a Jesse Helms-owned radio station; a Garden Club meeting . . . and working in the ladies' wear section of a K-mart store...
...victims of rape and of battering. Women executives have created supportive networks to help other women up the ladder and are striving to sensitize corporations to the need for ) flexible hours, child care and parental leave. Women journalists have fought to get women's concerns out of the "style section" and onto the front page. Women doctors, according to physician-writer Perri Klass, are less paternalistic than their male counterparts and "better at listening...
...organization in Cambridge, Mass. Accion has loaned $75 million to workers in Central and South America and created 100,000 permanent jobs. When Accion decided to widen its mission to fight poverty in the U.S., it dispatched Delma Soto-Larsen to start a self-employment project in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. She has an M.B.A. and has worked for Citibank and Chemical Bank, but her real education began when Accion sent her to Colombia to unlearn all that she had been taught. "You're doing everything that all the books tell you not to do," she says...