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A career and a movement, summed up in one word
An editor's brazen decision in 1969 -- on the day after the Manson killings no less -- to lead The Boston Globe with the headline "WOMEN" jeopardized his career but redirected my own. Ever since then, from my perch as an observer, I've tracked this story -- WOMEN -- more consistently than anything else.
Whatever happened to shame?
Shame seems to have found its match in a newer cultural norm: fame. Notoriety isn't so notorious anymore.
The ‘human’ factor is missing in Copenhagen
In Copenhagen, talk is centered on technological fixes and political trade-offs. But a move to help family planning efforts would both increase opportunity for women and ease the burden on the planet.
Facts and figures, myths and mantras
"Truthiness" has exploded alongside a new media that is decidedly not mainstream. It's now possible to find a group somewhere in Googleland that will agree with anything.

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