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...been to transform our expectations. Today in America, women can be whatever they want to be. We can walk in space and help our children take their first steps on earth. We can run a corporation and work as wives and mothers. We can be doctors, and we can bake cookies at home with our six-year-old future scientists...
...linked beta rays (UVB) in favor of alpha rays (UVA), which promote a more gradual tan. The most popular device for soaking up UVA is a clamshell-like tanning bed. The customer lies down on a Plexiglas surface, closes the lid and relaxes as lights from above and below bake him to a golden brown...
...field north of Jackson, the state's venerable agriculture commissioner, Jim Buck Ross, asked Ferraro if she had ever eaten catfish. "No," she replied. "Then you haven't lived, young lady," he said. The talk turned to blueberries, and the 66-year-old commissioner inquired, "Can you bake a blueberry muffin?" Ferraro smiled tightly. "Sure can." Slight pause. "Can you?" Another pause. "Down here," drawled Ross, "the men don't cook." Later Ferraro gamely noted that the next time she visited Mississippi, she would bring blueberry muffins and Ross would treat her to catfish. "He probably never...
...American Academy of Humor Columnists, whose other members are Art Buchwald, Russell Baker, Art Hoppe, Gerald Nachman and Don Ross, and whose sole function is to give members an excuse to write insulting letters to one another. (She was admitted, says Buchwald, because she won a banana-bread bake-off with another woman and also promised to make coffee and clean up.) Her friends are admiring and loyal. "There is an awful lot under the hair curlers," says one of them, Columnist Ann Landers. "She is savvy and sophisticated enough not to come across as too savvy and sophisticated...
...struggling high school social studies and American history teacher, had been married four years, and, she says, "I was sick of working. Putting on pantyhose every morning is not just whoopee time. My dream was to putter around the house, learn how to snap beans, put up curtains and bake bread." The young couple adopted Betsy, and Erma, who had learned domesticity as a child, returned to the home, an event that was to prove only slightly less momentous than Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines...