In 2013, data from the US Environmental Protection Agency showed that pesticides, which are banned, restricted or unregistered in the United States, were manufactured in 23 states for export to other countries.
Parts of China have for days been experiencing smog so thick that highways and businesses have been shut down, and dozens of flights have been canceled. Amid dangerously unhealthy air quality levels, people in Beijing and elsewhere in the country tried to go about their daily routines.
Ðây là một thực trạng đang xảy ra ở Việt Nam về bạo lực giới tính và quấy rối tình dục tại khu vực công cộng, vừa được Bộ Lao Ðộng và tổ chức Action Aid công bố ngày 2 tháng 12.
For the first time, women make up a majority of law students, holding just over 50 percent of the seats at accredited law schools in the United States.
Air kisses, flattery, and deference are part of doing business in Hollywood. But for some actors, etiquette can get complicated when it comes to racial diversity in casting. When a white actor raises the issue with an actor of color, and principles and job opportunities are at stake, should the colleagues be courteous or confrontational? Charitable or chastising?
A major doctors association in Denmark has recommended ending circumcisions for boys, saying the procedure should be “an informed personal choice” that young men make for themselves when they reach adulthood.
In 2007, Maria Schneider said that she “felt a little raped” during the filming of an infamous rape scene with Marlon Brando in the 1972 film “Last Tango in Paris,” and that the tears she cried on screen were real.
Many in the US are emerging from their initial shock at the outcome of the presidential election to confront its likely impacts: a legitimation of right-wing identity politics, worsening climate change and militarism, assaults on women’s rights and LGBT rights, and the gutting of basic public services.
As the country prepares to revert to white male rule, our common condition for all but eight of the last 240 years, we should think harder about why we assume so little of men, including ones we may be married to. Too many men don’t prove those expectations wrong, and are rewarded anyway with prizes like the presidency.
Women from a variety of nationalities, religions, sexual orientations and ages wrote to The Times about how their names were a core part of who they were. For many, the decision on whether to change their names carried significant weight, and it was shaped by the traditions, the norms and, in some cases, the laws of the societies in which they live. Some looked to their names as badges of cultural identity, others as symbolic links to their fathers that they were eager to preserve, or to sever.