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...comes to financing preservation, the public is sharply divided. Of the people polled, 48% were willing to "go full speed ahead" in "spending money to clean up the environment," but 47% said that, given other national problems, it would be better to "go slow." Despite their desire for a cleaner environment, 64% admitted that they personally "should be doing more" to achieve that goal. Perhaps the most revealing finding in the survey was that 80% agreed with the statement "There are so many contradictory things said about the environment that it is sometimes confusing to know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endangered Earth Update Is the Planet on the Back Burner? | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...Unfortunately, mass-production techniques make many poultry farms and plants prime breeding grounds for salmonella. Different strains of the bacteria can contaminate eggs as well as meat. (Raw cow's milk can also be tainted, but beef is less of a problem than poultry because the slaughtering process is cleaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Dangers of Foul Fowl | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...handed way to resolve the parking freeze matter," said Debra McManus, co-chair of the Cambridge Citizens for Livable Neighborhoods and a plaintiff in the suit to enforce the 1973 freeze. "Cars equal pollution. Pollution equals resperatory problems, heart aliments and brain disfunction. Let's leave a legacy of cleaner air for our childern...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: City Tables Environmental Ordinance Business, Residents Clash Over Law | 11/20/1990 | See Source »

Since women are the nation's top consumers, advertising has always made them the center of its world. Ads portrayed proper female aspirations: to be a desirable companion, a competent cleaner, a loving mother. The women in ads found fulfillment in the supermarket aisles -- and in Maidenform bras. But as millions began to venture beyond the home in the 1970s, the images had to change. Madison Avenue's women developed minds of their own. Consider the female Honda buyer, who thinks like a man. Or Charlie, reaching out to touch someone. Even romance mirrors complex modern reality: the cute young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: She's Come a Long Way | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...funnywomen are anything but rote jokesters: like Robin Williams or Billy Crystal,they invent routines as they go along. Paula Poundstone, whose stand-up is a sprawl across a stool, ad-libs about 30% every night. When she was too broke to redeem her outfits from the dry cleaner's, she included the angst in her monologue: "It's like, the clothes are in jail. I go in every so often and say, 'Could I just see the pants?' " Reno goes directly to the Supreme Court and for the jugular. On the abortion ruling: "Soon a cop will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business Sauce, Satire and Shtick | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

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