Back in school in the '50s and '60s, there were two types of clever girls: those who made a big show of helplessness and got a lot of "help" from the ever-so-much "stronger and smarter" boys and male teachers, and those who didn't catch on that the playing field wasn't even. Both got straight A's, but the second type had to work much harder.
Which brings us to Saturday's paper. There was Margaret Wente (Complexity Will Destroy Us All), helpless and stymied by her new household appliances. And there was Barbara Stegemann (The Scent Of A Woman Takes On Afghan Insurgency - front page), finding a solution to a nasty problem - poppy growing in Afghanistan - and putting that solution to work.