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Opponents who claim the law constitutes an infringement of the state onto individual rights are taking the argument for hands-off government to an illogical extreme. Putting on a seat belt takes three seconds--for most drivers the act is already second nature. The devices are not at all uncomfortable to wear. And there is no question that they save lives...
Many states already have seat belt laws--California, Washington, New York, Michigan, Connecticut, North Carolina and Maryland, to name a few. Sadly, Massachusetts doesn't have the greatest record on mandating the use of seat belts. In 1986, 54 percent of the state's citizens voted against a similar measure...
...coterie of loyalists expanded considerably once affluent women began to reject the gold-chain-belt opulence of the 1980s. "Nothing gives me more pleasure than to see that they 'get it,"' says Sander, who often speaks with missionary zeal for her aesthetic. "I see so many people following, and that's such a nice thing. You see they are getting better taste, better culture; they understand why something doesn't have to be seen from 100 meters away." Says Martha Stewart of her Sander wardrobe: "Jil's responded to the needs of people like me. I'm busy; I travel...
Radcliffe College is about as modern as your average chastity belt. No matter what a guy does, he just...
...world. It begins in the heat of the Cold War, just as General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) has manipulated routine Air Force procedures into a full preemptive strike on the Soviet Union. The general is the kind of man who carries a machine gun and artillery belt in his golf bag. His companion in his final hour is Captain Mandrake, a young Peter Sellers in the role of a British officer at the mercy of commie-phobic Yanks...