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  1. Ian Fleming's sexism and cold war primitivism

    the easy lane. Born into a well-connected family, Fleming was 鈥渜uite the right type鈥, as one future ... to tame you like a little wild animal鈥, Fleming, a connoisseur of flagellation-themed French ...

  2. Three books show how close nuclear catastrophe is

    Magician, Popeye and atomic-enhanced cartoon animals, including Donald Duck, have lent an 鈥渆ducational鈥 hand ... powers or Reds. It was assumed that the US hands that held The Bomb were the right hands and that nuclear ... reigns in the comics and animation world in which 鈥渃ynicism, resignation and bland acceptance鈥 of nuclear ...

  3. Sea Shepherd's whale wars get unwarranted hatchet job

    promote their 鈥渆xtremist鈥 creed of animal rights. This is too cynical, by half. Saving whales can serve as ...

  4. The undercover effort to tell Lunacharsky's story

    was dead right鈥, she notes in Spy in the Archives. The book is her memoir of her research on the ... not animated by an affinity with the political passions that drove the revolution鈥檚 makers. She ...

  5. The criminal tale of Monsanto

    false and misleading. Animal health studies find that either glyphosate or the other principal ... industry-government 鈥渞evolving door鈥 puts Monsanto officials in the right place to ensure regulatory conditions ... anew each season from Monsanto, whose 鈥渋ntellectual property鈥 rights to the genetic information in the ...

  6. Keep speaking up against the powerful

    1971, opposed to the sexist view that saw adult women as children or sexual objects or chattel animals ... she comments. Paretsky feels some despondency about the prospects for resisting the right ...

  7. Pirates saving the whales

    reckless idealism and from a more disturbing undercurrent of misanthropy among the animal liberationist ... more effective strategy for stopping what Heller rightly calls the "heinous crime" of ...

  8. Tarzan, a colonial symbol of bigotry

    raised as Tarzan by an ape-mother. He nonetheless remained the rightful heir of his father鈥檚 House of ...