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1) The Nobel Prize
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
News and Society
Once again the time of year is upon us when a committee of people decides whom will be awarded the Nobel prize in the five different categories which are literature, chemistry, medicine, physics and peace. These awards as most of us know are given out in Scandinavia as it was their where a man whose name was Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-96) made a fortune from his inventions which included dynamite (1867), gelignite (1876), and ballistite (1889), this being the precursor of cordite gunpowder. Of...
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2) Hillary Must Take the Heat or Get Out of the Kitchen
Author:
John Press
Category:
News and Society
The Educating Women Conference's keynote speaker, Jane Roland Martin, chose Hillary Clinton and misogyny as her main topic. When a man is aggressive, she told us, people admire the trait. When a woman is aggressive she gets called the "b word." This puts Clinton in a lose - lose situation. If she comes off as feminine, people will say she is not tough enough to be President. If she tells people she is tough, they consider her outside the pale of normal female behavior, an aberration, or even...
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