Word: calling
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...toxic. But the real question is, What's more dangerous to your health: milk, or celebrities and activists embarked on the latest trendy crusade? This week marks the publicity-pumped debut of the AntiDairy Coalition, a band of physicians, self-described "Hollywood personalities" and others who decry what they call "the health and nutritional risks of consuming dairy products...
When I buy call or put options, I'm not investing in a company; I'm trading pieces of paper in search of short-term profits. Here the fundamentals of the underlying business are usually less important than my read of how other investors are going to respond to new developments. There's no religious faith involved. I'm dispassionate about my stock trades...
...first time around, Mitchard was a virtual unknown: a Madison, Wis., newspaper columnist and a widowed mother of five. Then she got what has come to be known, for a select group including Toni Morrison, Alice Hoffman and, most recently, Edwidge Danticat, as "the call." Says Mitchard, laughing: "It fell under the category of 'Who knew?' I was dumbfounded, honest to gosh." On her follow-up book, the hard part was to exorcise all notions of trying to duplicate the previous success. "The temptation is to just write something like, 'He had a hairy chest, she had big breasts...
Kids aren't supposed to be tuning in to Dr. Drew Pinsky on Loveline, MTV's popular nightly call-in show on relationships. The program is aimed at young adults, and, Pinsky says, younger teens shouldn't watch it without a parent nearby. But they manage to. Sometimes because of a technicality: the show airs at 10 p.m. in the Central time zone instead of 11 p.m., as it does on the East and West coasts. But mainly because the subject is sex. And if sex is on the tube, adolescents are sure to find a way of getting...
...example, that one is allowed to have any view on abortion so long as it derives from ethical or practical or sociological or medical considerations. But should someone stand up and oppose abortion for reasons of faith, he is accused of trying to impose his religious beliefs on others. Call on Timothy Leary or Chairman Mao, fine. Call on St. Paul, and all hell breaks loose...