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Ensler is currently working on a play, The Good Body, about liposuction, breast implants and other outgrowths of our obsession with appearance. So far, she has traveled to 30 countries, interviewing women about what they have done to their bodies and why. She is particularly troubled by the state of teenage girls in America. "The consumer culture is so out of control, girls are surrounded by images of how they are supposed to look and behave and be," she says. "Their level of self-hatred, their obsession with body images, their incredible competitiveness with each other--sexuality gets lost...
...Prince Charles will never be King B) a brutal cold snap in England C) how Prince Charles got his stigmata D) a woman giving Prince Charles money for breast-cancer research...
More than half the women with babies younger than one are in the work force, according to census figures, and increasing numbers of them want to breast-feed their infants. Numerous scientific studies have suggested that breast milk is vastly superior to formula, not only for the mother's and child's basic health but also possibly for the child's early brain development. Given the evidence and lots of work by public health authorities, breast-feeding rates have climbed more than 16% in the past decade (although they are still lower than in nearly all developed countries...
...would be way, way too much arcane information for most male managers. But increasingly, companies like Williams, which was awarded its mom-friendly moniker by the Texas Breastfeeding Initiative, are adding up the numbers and giving new support to nursing, working mothers. They should. The women most likely to breast-feed are older than 35 with a college degree--that is, women who are also the most likely to be working. And breast milk, one of the world's best examples of demand-led economics, has to be expressed regularly so that supplies do not dwindle. That means it must...
...poverty. But strongman Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered the grand old man of Korean cinema. (His lush reworking of Chunhyang, Korea's most famous love story, recently won rave reviews in the U.S.) "You could only show kissing scenes...