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...language that appears, syntax may appear or not. All six lectures have been planned in detail, but I don't know what they'll be. I'll find out by writing them," Cage told the Sanders Theatre audience before beginning the narrative...
...unwanted fetuses. Among the dubious household remedies: swallowing narcotics made from hempseed, douching with the caustic disinfectant potassium permanganate, and even quaffing gin laced with iron filings. Such medieval measures are now giving way to a modern alternative: drugs that can induce abortion. Approved in pill form abroad, they appear to have what their noxious predecessors lacked: safety and efficacy. They are not, however, lacking in controversy...
...some U.S. urban areas, older parents are becoming the norm. Author Martha Fay, 41, mother of a five-year-old daughter, says of her West Side Manhattan neighborhood, "Some of the mothers look so old they don't appear biologically capable of having had these children. We have 50-year-old men teaching soccer teams." For both sexes, the benefits of postponing kids are greater financial security and well-established careers. What is more, there is no question that late children are wanted -- often badly wanted. Says Susan Fillin-Yeh, 45, an art historian at Yale and mother...
...movie, Heartbreak Hotel, imagines a '70s teenager kidnaping Elvis to impress his mom, and Elvis: An American Musical is touring the country this fall. An Elvis postage stamp is probably next, once proponents agree on which image -- that of the young or the middle-aged star -- should appear on it. And one can call an 800 number and get details about a Memphis bank's brand-new Elvis MasterCard...
...called attention to deeply rooted value assumptions that underlie legal doctine," Pope says. The influence of CLS, he says, "will appear in the course catalog, under courses that feature 'competing visions of the law.' And we're seeing a lot of decisions with CLS slants, too, probably because clerks who had CLS in law school go on to work for judges and work on the decisions...