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...woman impersonating her on television was. Thin as a pinstripe, she nonetheless felt one Sara Lee cheesecake away from Weight Watchers. Once a lively writer who impersonated a Playboy Bunny to expose Hugh Hefner's cheesy idea of sex appeal and quipped that if men could menstruate they would brag about how long and how much, she had produced very little since her collection of essays, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, in 1983. Ms., the magazine she co-founded in 1972 and edited from crisis to crisis ever since, was spinning out of her control...
Because some men have been repulsed since sixth or seventh grade, when they first heard a peer "brag about his sexual prowess" and discuss pornography. Some men have tried, to the best of their ability, to treat women as women and also as equals...
...million citizens have no health insurance at all. Few among the rest of us are free from fear of losing our insurance or finding it insufficient. Costs are soaring -- over 12% of GNP, by far the world's highest -- yet our longevity and infant-mortality rates are nothing to brag about. But an hour's wait to pay $120 for a few minutes of a doctor's time nicely illustrates how our system combines some of the worst aspects of both capitalism and socialism...
...mostly, we've got spirit--and the shuttle bus, which can come in very handy, because while river rats brag that they can leave for a class at five minutes before the hour, we can brag that we can leave (via shuttle, of course) five minutes after the hour--and be on time...
...much as Texans like to brag, their state has one distinction that few are proud of: it is the nation's leading producer of hazardous waste. Some 11,000 Texas businesses generate 70 million tons of the stuff annually. But last week Texas became the first state to ban temporarily the development of new commercial disposal sites for such waste and to stop the expansion of existing ones. "No more will hazardous-waste facilities be rammed through the permit process over the objections of local communities," said Governor Ann Richards. "No more will they be located near schools or residential...