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Jody Steinauer founded MSFC after she and fellow med students at the University of California, San Francisco were mailed a slightly threatening booklet from an anti-abortion group. Weeks later, Dr. David Gunn, a Florida abortion provider, was shot outside his clinic. "It was a wake-up call," she says. At medical conventions that summer Steinauer set up exhibits for the new group and was swarmed by students...
...fall of 1983, and my mom was already deeply immersed in her classes, teaching Shakespeare to 10th and 12th graders. Her leather bag was stuffed with copies of "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet" and "King Lear." I remember wondering, as I reached for the bright yellow booklet, what my mom, an inveterate and notoriously demanding teacher, would want with what were commonly known as "cheater books...
...threw in some Plastic Ono tracks for good measure. Twenty-two tracks of it. It’s long, unremitting and opaque, and even the cool cartoon album cover artwork by David Barnes, (presumably brother of Kevin, the brains behind the band) which extends to an entire booklet and foldout poster, cannot redeem it (even the musical interpretation of the poster...
...unnecessary. Take, for example, those devices that measure body fat. Just hold the device like a steering wheel, one brand promises, and in a matter of seconds it will send an electrical pulse through your body and spit out your body-fat percentage. But the instruction booklet lists eight conditions--including swelling, pregnancy and even a cold or the flu--that will produce inaccurate results. Anyway, who besides competitive body builders really needs to keep such close tabs on body fat? The rest of us should be more concerned about the number that pops up on our bathroom scale...
...with utmost speed. Like no other compilation, its 48 tracks, ranging from the mid-'50s to the early '60s, show the development of the Possum from a derivative honky-tonker to the world's best country singer. It's being purveyed by your nearest Internet dealer, though without the booklet described above, which was only included in a "Limited Collector's Edition," since sold out. It'll still be worth your while...