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...world where sexual orientation is polarized into heterosexuality and homosexuality, bisexuality comes as a disturbing challenge, at once a riddle and a discomfort. "It threatens rigidity," says Lani Kaahumanu, a bisexual activist in San Francisco. "It threatens both sides of the framework." Bisexuals often inspire nervousness, distaste and hostility in both straights and gays and are all but ignored by scholars...
Still, many bisexuals, especially men, are racked by discomfort and conflict. About two-thirds of bisexual men are married, notes Wedin, and discovery that a husband is involved with other men can easily wreck a marriage. The husband feels humiliated, and the wife betrayed, not so much by his having sex with men as by his having gone outside the marriage...
...from the most recent commissioner's report,documenting a surprise visit on June 2,1992,"post-surgical rats observed. Nothing seen thatindicated any problems or discomfort. Seemed quitenormal...
...There are too many pitfalls in terms of doingit improperly and the discomfort that the animalsmight have to suffer," Wiles says...
Despite the discomfort Clinton shows when challenged on such matters, his new economic plan is, on balance, both wiser and more promising than his earlier efforts and a far sight better than the Administration's proposals (as well as Ross Perot's, of course, since Perot is 10 days beyond his own deadline for getting real on the issues). Clinton still won't seriously tackle the spiraling cost of entitlement programs, and his health-care reforms, which he identifies as the "key to everything," require further work. But as his proposals are elaborated, they could resonate with an electorate...