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...CONTACT" tour of the shuttle began when a smiley, peachy-cheeked Ride made a bee-line for the bathroom. Peeing in space: the timeless stuff of which third grade humor is made, no doubt prompted conjectures amongst Ride's under-age audience at homes across America concerning fluid volume weightlessness. But Ride explained the mechanics well enough that it became evident, even to us minors, that women couldn't use the standard apparatus. But that's all the mothership offered. No ladies room; zero gravity. Not known for cliffhangers, "3-2-1 CONTACT" suddenly had its target demographic, male...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Of Sally Ride and Final Club | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...Bambang was given a slice of the lucrative business of importing and distributing basic commodities, such as wheat, sugar, soybeans and rice. Through sugar trading alone, he is estimated to have earned as much as $70 million a year, essentially for stamping documents. Eldest child Tutut became the queen bee of the clan. At the peak of her power, according to sources close to the family, investors seeking to meet her first had to pay a "consulting fee" of up to $50,000 to her minions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: It's All In The Family | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...grownups. But oddly, he stayed a precocious boy. His entire life has been a dramatization of the grownup problem. His struggle to become an adult has played before the world in excruciating detail. The other day I took The Catcher in the Rye up to the edge of the bee yard and sat reading it for the first time in 35 years. J.D. Salinger's book, published in 1951, is one of the founding documents of American adolescence, I guess--and an early source of the baby boom's self-image of sanctified youth. I was startled to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boys and the Bees | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...result in exclusion, however "open" the process might initially be. And while last week's "get-to-know-us" barbeque in the Lowell House courtyard was a nice public introduction of the organization, the influx of members from two other female social clubs, the Delta Gamma sorority and the Bee, a female final club, does nothing to reassure us that the Seneca will be anything more. Club members also reiterated their hope to have good relations with the final clubs, despite rejecting the title for themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seneca Falls Short | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

Butler said women's groups like DG and the Bee have given the Seneca the benefit of their experience...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seneca Club Throws Barbecue | 5/19/1999 | See Source »

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