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...cancer than nonsmokers. The tobacco giant?s web site, while still sprinkled liberally with friendly references to its Marlboro brand, now hosts a page entitled "Health Issues for Smokers." The text emphasizes free choice and adult responsibility, but also lays bare the causative link between smoking and disease, albeit in the words of the Food and Drug Administration, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Surgeon General...
...fashion critics really so oppressed? After all, that splendid shrine, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, does include the Costume Institute, albeit tucked away in the basement. According to Hollander, such efforts miss the point: "Like stage costumes, couturiers' work is often embalmed in exhibitions that can be ghastly essays in necrophilia." She scorns equally "efforts to chain [fashion] up in Cultural Studies." In Feeding the Eye, a new collection of previously published essays, Hollander furthers her project of making the world safe for fashion criticism...
Only a bunch of pediatricians and health officials could celebrate, albeit in a muted kind of way, that toddlers across the nation are shrieking their lungs out. On the one hand, they?re chalking up the highest-ever rates of childhood immunizations, and on the other they?re bemoaning the fact that so many kids still remain out of reach. According to numbers released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control, in 1998, 80.6 percent of children 19 to 35 months had the complete series of recommended shots for the big three of childhood disease: measles, polio and tetanus/diphtheria. That...
...riding the buzz. It is a buzz I built, albeit by accident. The buzz started last month, when I got a random call from Jed Weitzman, an ambitious 28-year-old manager at Brillstein-Grey. He told me that he really related to the pop references in my column and wanted to manage my Hollywood career, even though I didn't have one. Seeing as I am not the first to allude to The Brady Bunch in a story that was not about TV, I sensed this was just another lame cover for the attraction people feel for me after...
...themselves in the turbulent life and times of Diana, Princess of Wales, knew about her struggles with bulimia, her tendency to throw herself down stairs, her unwise love affairs, her basic inability to stick with any notion for much longer than it took her to tire of her latest--albeit fabulous--hairstyle...