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...stood in sharp relief from the rest of the packet. Where the bulk of the mailing had an air of mindless veneration for this institution (quoting Cotton Mather liberally), Adams' book offered a tale of Harvard's inadequacy--the "chief wonder of education" here being that Harvard did not completely "ruin everybody concerned with...
...conditions are coupled with a general ignorance about reproduction and its hazards. Sex education is rarely taught in school. Many a young woman panics when she sees her first menstrual blood, having no idea what it signifies. Her options for dealing with menstruation are unpleasant: thick, rough pads or cotton batting. That may soon change, however. Moscow is negotiating with an American firm to set up a joint venture for the production in the Soviet Union of up to 25 million tampons a year...
Venerable tradition, sticky with the memory of cotton candy, has it that the circus never changes. That may be why a brash Canadian named Guy Laliberte says he hates the circus and why a colleague, Denis Lacombe, thinks clowns are boring. What makes their opinions worthwhile is that Laliberte is the founder of the Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil (Circus of the Sun), which hoists its 1,756-seat tent in New York City this week as part of a North American tour that has made it something of a cult attraction. And Lacombe is his star clown, who does...
...because two years ago Mayfair Mansions was invaded by an army of drug dealers who threatened to take over the place. Gangs operated freely behind closed doors as well as in the open, in abandoned apartments and in deserted courtyards. Hallways were littered with syringes, burned matches, cotton balls -- the accoutrements of the drug world. Gunfire was a nightly occurrence, and there were at least a dozen deaths from shootings and overdoses. "We have been under siege for almost two years by drug dealers," Barbara Brown, vice president of the Mayfair Residents Council told TIME's Susan Schindehette. "The dealers...
...falutin' posturing there is a subtler, more insidious suggestion. These ads are not designed for just any consumer, they're for the wealthy, the status-conscious, the elite. Literature and art can now do for high-priced luxury items what alligators and polo ponies did for those once-cheap cotton sport shirts--they imbue the product with an unmistakeable mark of prestige...