And for every one of those immiserated sweat-shoppers...

There's an American in 'Ankle-Sox', Nebraska who's just gotten his nice new shiny (smells good, works good!) iPod from UPS.

Eventually we balance...or we'll all suffer.

Using the word 'principled' in the same breath as 'Tom DeLay.............

As if.

We...an older generation (lay and professional) were taught that as the uterine lining (endometrial) became

-unemployed- it also and pari passu became 'fouled', unclean and so, needed out.

Entrenched beliefs....received wisdoms.

The menstruation/isolation sheds of older or more primitive cultures also catered to some of this but actually had most of their benefit in limiting perhaps riskier sexual contact in that 'period'.

At least I so believe..as a physician....

But don't actually know...Is there benefit, as for sort of an internal 'skin'..of regular defoliation?

And with none of this going to the anemia to which menstruating women are prone...OR their avoiding iron- overload syndromes...and stuff.

Need some science here folks...not lore.

Salon could do that for us...and will, I'm sure, as able.

Andrew...

Never've written you before;

But want to express a real gratitude for your

clarifying for me that which is 'globalization' and that which 'the Washington Consensus' is not.

I was way confused (perhaps there is purpose in perpetuating such a confusion?).

And would like also to thank you for bringing Mr. Stiglitz into my thinking. Big plus.

And finally you might do a piece sometime on what is:

The CNN anchor so reknowned nowadays for 'border security'

but who also decries 'Corporate Supremacists' and,

in very populist tones, cries out, in cadenced 'plaint, for the vanishing American! middle class.

But...I am brought regularly to thinking of him in 'Military-Industrial Complex' colours?

He also is known (to me at least) as the CNN anchor who never finished his conversation with Mr. Stiglitz.

Why is that?

The 'subjected' will inquire for itself.

Thanks again for all you do

James Taylor/Montana

Exactly the same line of dissimulation and deceit used by Big Tobacco in refuting a CAUSAL link from smoking or chewing to lung (and many other) cancers...

Something like... "there has never been direct cause scientifically established between the use of tobacco, tobacco products or formulations and the occurence of cancers of any kind"

Truth-ish, as far as it went, but at base, a lie.

The debater/afficianado-of-argument will have a name for this kind of mendacious obfuscation.

That term, as an established feature and evil of The Tobacco Industry -by extension to Exxon/CEI et al- should be gotten out and repeated and repeated and repeated.

Page...

Has anyone looked at the douching practices of these gals?

My interest would be in normal or 'disturbed' vaginal flora...the 'good bacteria' thinking.

I really think a'probiotic' approach might be useful...to think about at least

And I see in the NYT yest. that you gals still can't tell your perineal orifices apart.

according to one benighted Ob-Gyn.

Be well

'New Waterford Girl' gets more impact.

Author's right ..growing up 50's/60's...unquestioning acceptance,convention and compliance.

It was simply 'the way things were'.

Former patriarch,well-off white guy having been raised in precisely that ever so 'secure' & self-satisfied bubble.

Kind of ashamed now at my own oblivious conformity.

Better times now.

Jas`e Taylor MD(ret.)

-Or South Africa...in those days...and the rest of Africa.

-Really a matter of concentrations, osmotic gradients

and membrane/borders..all going, of course,to demographic shifts.

-Another point for 'self-organizing principles' and their 'emergent phenomena'.