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...Ruth Westheimer, best known as a sex therapist, explains the importance of grandparents in her life and others' in Grandparenthood (Routledge). She and co-author Dr. Steven Kaplan also dispel the stereotypes: "Contrary to some popular images, most grandparents are neither feeble nor old." Instead, says Dr. Ruth, a grandparent can serve as a valued family historian, model, teacher, confidant or safety net. She also addresses the special concerns when a grandchild is adopted, or when the parents are interethnic or interracial...
...surprising reciprocal relationship, the simple fact that there are a greater number of visible and comfortable gays has created more of the same, more visible and comfortable gays. "I think we've done a great deal of persuading people that we are not a countercultural force," says Andrew Sullivan, author (Love Undetectable) and former New Republic editor, who epitomizes the argument that homosexuals should embrace the existing institutions of heterosexual society. "We are a mainstream force." Sullivan likes to point out that the richest gay group in the nation isn't a political group but a religious denomination, the Metropolitan...
Reiner, 51, is author and chief promoter of one of the more ambitious pieces of social legislation ever crafted on a state level. Picking up where the U.S. Congress left off when a proposed $368 billion federal tobacco lawsuit settlement was killed in June, Prop 10 would add a 50[cent] tax to each pack of cigarettes sold in California. The money, up to $700 million a year, would be channeled into antitobacco programs and early-childhood health and education. The higher prices would result in an estimated 25% drop in smoking--and consequent savings in the state...
This is because the author's masterwork is an astonishing naval saga set in Napoleonic times during England's long sea war with France, and it extends now to 19 closely linked novels. The latest, The Hundred Days (W.W. Norton; 282 pages; $24) is just out. And O'Brian, now close to 85, is busily at work on a 20th...
...Author O'Brian, who has sailed on square-rigged ships, is a meticulous naval scholar and medical historian. The battles in which Aubrey distinguishes himself and Maturin repairs the wounded are real, borrowed from history (the two are passengers on H.M.S. Java when the U.S.S. Constitution, now a tourist attraction in Boston Harbor, defeats the British ship off Brazil in his sixth novel, The Fortune of War) and retold in language nearly understandable to a landsman ("A burton-tackle to the chesstree. Lead aft to a snatch block fast to the aftermost ringbolts and forward free. Look alive there...