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That was before hair began to accumulate on our shower drain. Now, after three months of living with The Mound, I am beginning to understand some fundamentals of American economic policy. Problems may be so obvious and so disgusting that nobody dares do anything about them...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: National Debt and Hair Loss | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

...rooming group, the first reaction to hair on the shower drain was denial...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: National Debt and Hair Loss | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

...just a few years ago." To Paul Mellon, long the Maecenas of Washington's National Gallery of Art, "everything important is ridiculously expensive . . . I just refuse to pay these absurd prices." And as the museum's buying power fades, public experience of art is impoverished, and the brain drain of gifted young people from curatorship into art dealing accelerates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sold! The Art Market: Goes Crazy | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Perodeau says the turkeys are put down by mechanical means. "My understanding is that they use an electric knife. They hang them up by their legs, cut their jugular veins and let all the blood drain out. It gives them a nice golden-yellow color...

Author: By H. JACQUELINE Suk, | Title: GOBBLE, GOBBLE | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

...drain on their time, energy and money," says Nassim P. Assefi, co-coordinator of the Wellesley Women of Choice. To motivate students to attend Sunday's rally, Wellesley activists adopted the slogan "Once is not enough," she says...

Author: By Jennifer L. Greenstein, | Title: Pro-Choice: Rallying Campus Support | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

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