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...paper dress -- only to be handed a bunch of insurance forms and a prescription for pills that make you logy. Your back still hurts, so you're referred to a fancy specialist. More X rays. More insurance forms. More waiting in a backless paper gown, followed by talk of disk surgery from a doctor who looks as if his back hurts. It sounds awful, and next comes the final insult, the letter from your insurance company: "See rejection code...
...that considered a system of rating computer games akin to the way movies are classified. But software publishers are noted for their independence, and they could not reach a consensus. The best they could do was to urge members to describe clearly on the package what appears on the disk. That is what Sierra On-Line has done with Leisure Suit Larry...
...York social worker Shoshana Shonfeld, 40, for instance, was crushed when , an orthopedic surgeon told her she would either have to live with chronic back pain or undergo radical disk surgery, with no guarantee of success. Then she found a chiropractor who, she recalls, "did all kinds of wonderful things." In addition to spinal manipulation, the practitioner served up a potpourri of health-care advice on everything from diet to correct posture and toning up muscles in the stomach and lower back. Now, she says, "my back is almost perfect. My body feels aligned; it feels straight...
...might be able to read the directions to build bookshelves in multiple languages, but I certainly couldn't put them together better than any other person with two hands. A good portion of the students here can't hook up their own computers. Even more have compact disk players that baffle them. And if you can find a student who put together his or her own futon, get them...
...Billboard certainly was mysterious: the simple, unexplained declaration "Keep Music Evil" on last week's front page raised more than a few eyebrows. The slogan represents the philosophy of the FATIMA MANSIONS, an Irish band that has just released its U.S. debut disk Viva Dead Ponies. According to lead singer Cathal Coughlan, the group hopes to capture rock's old outlaw image by overthrowing the sugarcoated commercialism prevalent on the pop charts today. To promote that "mission," the album dissects a British society rife with "squalid poverty where the poor prey on the even poorer," says Coughlan. Included...