Word: barbarae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recognize a single artist or group in your selection of the best music. Perhaps it's time to change the setting on my car radio." BARBARA PRICE Dayton, Ohio...
...Would Barbara Ehrenreich's satirical commentary about a toy company and child labor [ESSAY, Dec. 23] have a happier ending if multinational firms fired their child workers? Has Ehrenreich considered that the children are working not because they are forced to but for some other reason? In developing countries today, child income is necessary for a family's survival, as it was in the U.S. in the past. For my part, I find child labor a lesser evil than child starvation. ROBERT S. CARR Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan...
They were kindred minds as well as spirits. On a vacation to Brazil, he took James Watson's 1,100-page textbook, Molecular Biology of the Gene, and they studied bioengineering together. On another vacation, to a Santa Barbara, California, ranch, she took tapes of Richard Feynman's lectures at Cornell, and they studied physics. And on a larger excursion with friends to central Africa, which ended at some beach cottages on an island off Zanzibar, among their companions was anthropologist Donald Johanson, known for his work on the human ancestor Lucy, who helped teach them about human evolution...
...this there were a few events of the year that touched people's better natures. Moments of silence occurred for Barbara Jordan, Cardinal Bernardin, Joseph Mitchell, James Rouse, George Burns, Claudette Colbert, Ella Fitzgerald and others of value whose deaths recalled what was valuable. At Ella's death the radio played the songs she graced, like Cole Porter's In the Still of the Night, and for a while a voice filled the air that hit every note on the note, sang words that meant something and infused heartbreak with...
...think you're jealous. Not only is Clinton one of the smartest, most capable, most likable Presidents we have ever had, he is also the most photogenic. It doesn't matter what he wears; he still looks like a million. Eat your heart out! EMMA LOU DIEMER Santa Barbara, California...