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...scene, by contrast, from real life: One recent evening on West 68th Street in Manhattan, the alarm on a little red sports car goes off. Who knows what started it? The passing thunderstorm, a bump from a car pulling into the % parking space ahead, someone leaning against the fender? The plates on the wailing car indicate that it comes from Long Island. After 15 or 20 minutes someone puts a note on the windshield: GO BACK TO LONG ISLAND WHERE YOU BELONG AND LEAVE YOUR ALARM THERE. Two hours pass; alarm still wailing. Someone else scrawls some impolite advice...
...sense of responsibility: now she is undraped in Penthouse, now she is doing a benefit for AIDS research, now she is doing a Pepsi commercial, now she is the dutiful wife, now she is the brazen divorcee. Serious feminist scholars defend her intelligent womanliness. Bluenoses sniff at her every bump and grind. The Vatican has denounced her. Academics spin doctoral dissertations based on her canon. The Queer Nation beatifies her. Wannabes still, well, wanna...
...ladder, you just bump down one rung, but so does everyone else," says Jon M. Biotti '91. "We are still ahead of certain other college grads so therefore everything is relative...
Left-handed people are such a sorry lot. Though they are a minority (perhaps 10% of the population), no antidiscrimination laws protect them. They bump elbows with their partners at the dinner table. They are clumsy with scissors and wrenches. In a world designed and dominated by righties, they are condemned to a lifetime of snubs, of fumbling with gadgets and switches and buttons. Possibly because of a stressful birth or because the left side of the brain sometimes doesn't know what the right side is doing, they suffer disproportionately from migraine headaches and stuttering. Since lefties also tend...
...Realtors says the biggest impact of peace on the housing market may be regional. Most of the American troops in the gulf were pulled out of the southeastern U.S., he says, where merchants have suffered and housing markets have stagnated as a result. Says he: "Maybe the biggest bump we'll see in the housing market will be in that section of the country, when we repatriate the troops and they get on with the lives they've put on hold for six to eight months." Thanks to falling interest rates and softer prices, the housing industry's Home Affordability...