Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though, it's also about Carpenter-McMillan, a striking blond who is a fixture on California talk shows. A self-styled "conservative feminist," she was particularly prominent as an abortion opponent until 1990, when she admitted she'd had one herself as an unmarried college student. She still opposes abortion but has turned her attention to child-abuse issues as head of the Women's Coalition, an organization largely funded by her wealthy husband that operates out of their Los Angeles home...
...from depression," and last week the New York Times ran two stories in as many days calling St. John's wort "a gentle remedy" and "a rival to Prozac." Pills and potions containing extracts of hypericum are selling briskly in supermarkets and health-store chains from New York to California. "We are stunned and pleased," says Karl-Heinz Siewert, managing director of Lichtwer Pharma, a Berlin-based company that markets hypericum under the brands Kira and Jarsin...
Just getting to the Red Planet was a signal accomplishment for Surveyor. Launching a spacecraft from Earth to Mars, says NASA, is like firing a baseball from California to New York and hitting a particular window in the Empire State Building. Having managed this navigational tour de force, Surveyor then had to enter Mars orbit--a maneuver that carried its own risks...
Sources: American Red Cross; University of California, San Francisco; American Heart Association...
...Hollywood and on Madison Avenue who have grown accustomed to targeting audiences between the ages of 18 and 49. "We have the entire marketplace in a ridiculous state of denial, and it's costing companies, advertisers and marketers billions of dollars," says gerontologist Ken Dychtwald, founder of the California company Age Wave and a Pied Piper of marketing to those older than...