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32101 There is a God -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Isn't shame of, & desire to remedy, baldness a sign that men are, >once again, becoming as body- & fashion-conscious as women, learning >to think of themselves as objects of desire (not just as subjects of >desire)? > >As women work out to create toned bodies, men try to restore hair on >their heads. Gradual convergence of male & female beauty standards? "Boys Will Be Girls": <http://www.cjr.org/year/98/3/boys.asp>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 11 07:31:04 PDT 2001

32102 Rob Schaap on Foucault -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > >>> jkschw at hotmail.com 06/10/01 11:50PM >>> > >I haven't particapted much in this, but I'll put in my cryptic two cents. I >think it is necessary to distinguish between Foucault the sociologist of >knowledge and Foucault the French philosopher. > >-clip- > >((((((( > >CB: Actually, this note from Justin is not cryptic , but plain talk >on philo from a pro., helpful to amateurs. I did wonder what is the >common d ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 11 07:23:38 PDT 2001

32103 RIP, Suck & Feed -- rank: 1000

New York Times - June 11, 2001 2 Long-Running Internet Magazines Shut Down By AMY HARMON Two of the Web's longest-lived magazines, Feed and Suck, said on Friday that they had suspended publication and laid off their skeleton staffs because they were unable to raise the money needed to continue. Last year, with a $4 million investment from Lycos Inc. and Advance Publications, the magazines merged to form Automatic Media, which also runs Plastic, a site devoted to commentary on media and culture s ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 11 07:10:02 PDT 2001

32104 class at Duke -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 8, 2001 At Elite Universities, a Culture Of Money Highlights Class Divide By JONATHAN KAUFMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DURHAM, N.C. -- After a full day of classes, Duke University junior Julie Byrd, backpack slung over her shoulder, brown hair pulled into a pony tail, strides across Duke's main campus. This is the heart of Duke's student life: imposing gothic buildings and carefully manicured lawns, an easy walk to classes, desirable housing, fraternit ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 11 07:03:19 PDT 2001

32105 global warming: case not closed, sez NAS guy -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal [of course] - June 11, 2001 Scientists' Report Doesn't Support the Kyoto Treaty By Richard S. Lindzen. Mr. Lindzen, a professor of meteorology at MIT, was a member of the National Academy of Sciences panel on climate change. Last week the National Academy of Sciences released a report on climate change, prepared in response to a request from the White House, that was depicted in the press as an implicit endorsement of the Kyoto Protocol. CNN's Michelle Mitchell was typical of ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 11 07:04:35 PDT 2001

32106 There is a God -- rank: 1000

Maureen Anderson wrote: >Aw hell. First Viagra, now this. Will there be nothing left to >even moderately tame the male ego? Well, there's feminism, which has fallen a bit out of fashion. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 11 06:54:20 PDT 2001

32107 Fwd: Re: Fw; [ASDnet] Should Peace Movements Criticize Terrorism?/socialfascist? -- rank: 1000

From: DavidMcR at aol.com Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 18:16:14 EDT Subject: Re: Fw; [ASDnet] Should Peace Movements Criticize Terrorism?/socialfascist? Ah me, always makes a man feel he is doing something right! First, I have absolutely no idea what I wrote to suggest Palestinians had a propensity to violence - it would be a service to me if I could find out. Second, most of the time I'm attacked as an anti-Semite for my support for the Palestian people and their struggle, and my sharp criticism of Is ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 9 15:34:44 PDT 2001

32108 Rob Schaap on Foucault -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: > >dot: you "obsess" about those nasty >>pomos/poststructuralists/anti-materialists. > >Different thing entirely, Kel. Kicking that load of puerile intellectual >dishonesty off the thoroughfares of conversation is a sacred duty. Violence joined to religion, Rob. What's that all about? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 9 13:41:00 PDT 2001

32109 Fwd: [DAN-Labor] WTO Wall Street Mailing List -- rank: 1000

>From: Joseph Catron <jncatr at mail.wm.edu> >Subject: [DAN-Labor] WTO Wall Street Mailing List >Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 08:45:43 +0800 >Reply-To: jncatr at mail.wm.edu >List-Subscribe: <mailto:DAN-Labor-subscribe at topica.com> >List-Archive: <http://topica.com/lists/DAN-Labor/read> > >"To explore the possibility of shutting down the New York Stock >Exchange, through a combination of street-level direct action and >Electronic Civil Disobedienc ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 9 13:38:56 PDT 2001

32110 inequality & health -- rank: 1000

[Contradicting Wilkinson et al] <http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8318> Health, Inequality, and Economic Development Angus Deaton NBER Working Paper No. W8318 Issued in June 2001 ---- Abstract ----- I explore the connection between income inequality and health in both poor and rich countries. I discuss a range of mechanisms, including nonlinear income effects, credit restrictions, nutritional traps, public goods provision, and relative deprivation. I review the evidence on the effects of inc ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 9 13:26:56 PDT 2001

32111 who needs health insurance? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The purpose of health insurance is not to >provide or 'buy' health care; it's to finance health >care in a manner that improves individual >economic well-being. In other words, it's >a way to share risks and smooth out expenditures. It's also a way to feel safer, less at risk of insolvency if you get sick. People who don't have health insurance are a bit anxious about it, no? I thought even bourgeois economists gave some weight to the value of subjective wellb ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 9 13:09:14 PDT 2001

32112 Death to the Social Fascists! -- rank: 1000

Michael McIntyre wrote: >It just gets worse and worse. I think this is my third post for the >day. It's good that there are rules to shut me up. I've been meaning to point out that the script that used to send out the dire overposting warnings was disappeared when Panix shut down an old machine & I failed to transfer the text before the shutdown. So, please keep yourself under three a day please. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 9 13:01:13 PDT 2001

32113 Fw; [ASDnet] Should Peace Movements Criticize Terrorism?/social fascist? -- rank: 1000

ppillai at sprint.ca wrote: >Is this prick the same David McReynolds who ran as the Socialist >Party canditate for >pres. in the last US election by any chance? > >hmm if so maybe that whole 'social fascist' label thing wasnt such a >bad idea after >all Huh? What's your beef with David McR? He seems like a fine fellow to me. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 14:53:31 PDT 2001

32114 white fear -- rank: 1000

America Disintegrates By Sam Francis While Time magazine's cover story this week gurgled cheerfully over the happy "whole new world" it spies in the disappearance of the U.S. border with Mexico, a more sober article in the June issue of American Demographics analyzes the new borders that are sprouting up - i nside what used to be the United States. The second article, by veteran demographer William Frey, looks at the findings of the recent census and discovers that while some parts of ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 15:04:49 PDT 2001

32115 Death to the Social Fascists! -- rank: 1000

Michael McIntyre wrote: >Come on, Nathan - even lawyers and economists know that sometimes >ceteris ain't even close to paribus. "...cet is rarely par" - Joan Robinson

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Date:	Fri Jun 8 14:21:47 PDT 2001