Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from being an isolated outrage, such a botch-up is shockingly common, claims Baden, co-director of the forensic sciences unit of the New York state police. In a new book, Unnatural Death (Random House; $17.95), he and co- author Judith Adler Hennessee present a fascinating and disturbing picture of a shamefully inadequate U.S. coroner system. About 7% of the 2 million Americans who die annually meet an untimely end, by murder, suicide or accident. By law, such deaths must be investigated. Though the public may believe that every coroner is a skilled sleuth like television's Quincy, fewer than...
...Jordan authorized creation of a select group of antiquities experts, all Christians, with exclusive rights to study and publish the rest of the manuscripts. The favored scholars assigned the various texts among themselves. As for the scrolls, some eventually went on display at West Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book, but most ended up in the Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem. When Israel gained jurisdiction over the museum in the 1967 Six-Day War, it left the existing team in place. Recently the members have consigned some scrolls to graduate assistants, cutting out better-known experts...
Quick flip-through, by male in jokey mood: Woman sociologist gets big grant, does ten years of research, writes book proving that men don't do housework. Complains...
...such modest goals sound like crazed radicalism? Because, a male observer is forced to admit, men and male-dominated institutions are exceedingly timid about revolution. Perhaps, however, Hochschild's prickly, irritating, distressingly reasonable book can help us to see the next step. The call used to be for soft-center males, studs who could cry. That was silly. Men don't cry. They brood, and mutter, and sulk, sometimes for hours on end, while on TV the Red Sox are slowly dying. That's fine, the author is saying, but not while there are children to be bathed, dinner...
...book tells the hard truth: most men -- even those who talk equality -- do not really do much child rearing, cooking, cleaning, shopping, or enough other chores to count...