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...services our office computer network drives a minivan; so does the gentleman who maintains the brochure racks in my office, and my caterer and contract furniture supplier. Not a housewife among them. Minivans are practical vehicles that can haul other things besides runny-nosed kids, flea-bitten dogs and henpecked husbands. Sport-utes can't match them for practicality and cargo or passenger space, the price is right and, frankly, a minivan will never be mistaken for the extension of macho man that a Hummer or Range Rover surely is. PAULA WESSON Stowe...
...were reminiscent of a Reader's Digest article. Other ideas, such as church-based programs that ask engaged couples to fill out marital "inventories," seemed promisingly pragmatic. The present is always struggling against the past. Much as the laid-back breakups of 20 years ago arose from the hard-bitten marriages of an earlier time, the current soul searching about divorce owes its existence to the hang-loose '70s. If mistakes have been made, who's to say that we can't learn from them without resorting to blunt reversals of policy and nasty ideological purges? Looked at from ground...
...just for argument's sake, that you have been bitten by the Elvis bug. You dye your hair black, don a white rhinestone-studded jumpsuit, curl your upper lip into a passable sneer and venture forth. You start the world's 481st Elvis fan club. You print up personalized Elvis stationery and Elvis T shirts, and start a Web page with photos of Graceland. You throw Elvis-themed parties...
...medical care increased from 1986 to 1994 [LIVING, June 23], dog-bite fatalities, tragic as they may be, are not on the rise: 10 to 15 have occurred each year for the past six years, and six have occurred thus far in 1997. An estimated 4.7 million people are bitten by dogs each year, and most of them are children. Dog-bite injuries are a largely preventable problem. Responsible dog ownership and public education are the keys to prevention. LESLIE SINCLAIR Director of Companion Animal Care Humane Society of the U.S. Washington...
While spectators may have been thinking, "let's get this thing over with so we can resuscitate our frost-bitten hands," the lacrosse team obviously did not feel the same...