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...effects confined to immigrants. Every American worker must prove to a would-be employer that he or she has a right to work in the U.S. "That's going to be a startling revelation to American citizens," says Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, an author of the act. It proved an unpleasant revelation for Courtney Minturn. She held top security clearance as a federal employee in Washington, and then moved to New Mexico with her new husband Charles Gomez. Earlier this spring, when Courtney Gomez applied for a new job with the Government through a temporary agency, she was told...
...author chides his subject for the "Poor Richard" pose he so often adopted toward his struggles. In fact, his meteoric rise was as much a product of good luck as of hard work. Nixon entered the House during a brief, aberrant period of Republican control, when choice committee assignments were being handed out to eager freshmen. His Red-scare tactics benefited immensely from the awful example of Senator Joseph McCarthy: "McCarthy's charges were so extreme, his inability to back them up so obvious, that he made Nixon look like a scholar and statesman in comparison." The outbreak...
...stop body shop where women can receive a gynecological exam or mammogram; treatment for premenstrual syndrome or osteoporosis; advice on nutrition, weight loss and cosmetic surgery; even counseling for psychological problems. "We have head-to-toe health care," exults Penny Wise Budoff, a family practitioner (and the best-selling author of No More Hot Flashes and Other Good News). Her clinic in Bethpage, N.Y., a former Howard Johnson's restaurant painted lilac with yellow columns, has a staff of 13 doctors with a full range of specialties. "We're like a mini-Mayo Clinic," she says. Or a Ms. Mayo...
Critics wonder whether the new clinics are offering better care or merely fancy wrapping. Some question the automatic faith in female staffs. "I'm skeptical," says Feminist Judy Norsigian, co-author of The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, who notes that because male and female physicians receive identical educations, "the women often come out the same." Others point out that the new centers are geared to affluent women, neglecting the old and the poor. And there is concern about whether the clinics are overly accommodating. Leah Dills, 32, who has visited Woman's Care Center in San Francisco at least eight...
...Author Chapman Pincher charges in a new book, Traitors: The Labyrinth of Treason, that Oldfield was a homosexual. Last week Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirmed that the spy chief had admitted to her before his death in 1981 "that he had from time to time engaged in homosexual activities." Thatcher stressed that "there was no reason whatsoever to suggest that security had ever been compromised...