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As biology advances, some of the differences between the sexes are turning out to be a little more complicated than we learned in 10th-grade biology, when testosterone was clearly the boy hormone and estrogen the girl hormone. Not only are both hormones present in both sexes, but estrogen is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Truth About The Female Body | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

It happened somewhere between the clunky premier episode (Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her) and her first classic routine, the Vitameatavegamin commercial, in which Lucy gets steadily soused as she keeps downing spoonfuls of the alcohol-laced potion she's trying to hawk on TV. (Watch the spasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUCILLE BALL: The TV Star | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Tripp did this even though she was not in any jeopardy, not even of losing her job. She comes across as a busybody with a large chip on her shoulder who'd had her first attempt at a White House book rejected. Egged on by book agent Lucianne Goldberg, Tripp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With a Friend Like This... | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

b) Very unfunny. Jokes about dyslexic girls who stick tampons up their noses aren't funny. The word "fuck" does not make everything funny, nor does its constant use by virtually every character add anything to its content or make any kind of social statement--Pulp Fiction came out four...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deconstructing Allen's 'Harry' | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

It's open season!" shouts one brochure. You bet it is--on us. Like lambs to the slaughter, we must make our "health-care elections" by Nov. 30, which means paying more money for less care, even as the cost of other necessities, like bread, milk and Big Macs, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANOTHER DOSE OF HARRY AND LOUISE | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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