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February 21, 2013
U.N. watchdog: New centrifuges at Natanz advance Iran toward nuclear weapon
Iran has installed centrifuges at its largest nuclear enrichment plant that could be used to produce radioactive material for a nuclear weapon, the U.N.\’s nuclear watchdog said.
On the Golan Heights, Israel braces for consequences from Syria civil war
A fence made of chain links and rusted barbed wire once was enough to separate the Golan Heights from Syria. That\’s no longer the case.
Another Republican senator backs Hagel for Pentagon chief
Chuck Hagel\’s path to confirmation as President Barack Obama\’s new secretary of defense became more secure on Thursday when Republican Senator Richard Shelby said he would support the nomination.
‘The Feminine Mystique’: ‘All that I am I will not deny’
In reflecting on the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking The Feminine Mystique, Stephanie Coontz wrote in the New York Times that “readers who return to this feminist classic today are often puzzled by the absence of concrete political proposals to change the status of women. But The Feminine Mystique has the impact it did because it focused on transforming women’s personal consciousness.”
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