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HAPPIER AT LAST Though menopause can seem like a cheerless event, it may actually alleviate emotional distress. The rate of women who suffer from anxiety or depression drops from 10.8% in women under 55 to 5.3% in those 55 and older...
McCaffrey's book Restoree, published in 1968, was a send-up of other science-fiction novels of the 1950s and '60s that portrayed women as weak, damsel-in-distress types. "I got so goddamn tired of the heroines' sitting in the corner of the spaceship wringing their hands and crying," McCaffrey says. "I would have been in there kicking and screaming, doing anything to help the hero...
When the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox last played in a game that meant something, Teddy Roosevelt was President and SOS had just been adopted as the universal distress signal. Most sportswriters thought the White Sox, known as the Hitless Wonders, needed to send out just such a call against the Cubs, who had won a record 116 games behind the poetic double-play relay of Tinker to Evers to Chance. But funny things happen in baseball, and the Southsiders won the fourth World Series ever played, four games...
...that is exactly what he did at high noon on Wednesday, April 2, 90 min. into an air exercise that left from Arizona's Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. He showed no signs of distress, signaled no one and failed to respond to a radio call from the lead aircraft on the mission. The missing plane, a heavily armored, low-and-slow-flying machine known as the Warthog, emitted no tracking pings because only the lead aircraft on an exercise uses its transponder. But Air Force officials have traced Button's flight 800 miles northeast from Arizona through a corner...
...loop." But of course, he didn't really. At one point, Reich describes waiting in a small anteroom outside the Oval Office with economic advisers Robert Rubin, Laura D'Andrea Tyson and Gene Sperling, only to learn from CNN that Clinton had fired chief of staff Mack McLarty. "Our distress has nothing to do with the merits of the decision...What's so galling is that the decisions were made without any of us having a clue...At this moment we are inches away from the Oval, and yet we might as well be in Tahiti...