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...Lila Nachtigall, co-author of the popular handbook Estrogen: The Facts Can Change Your Life! (HarperCollins; $11). The natural waning of estrogen in the middle years often brings physical changes that can ruin a woman's pleasure in sex. The vagina basically reverts to its prepubescent shape: narrower, shorter, dryer, less elastic, with thin walls that tear easily and are prone to infection. The libido may also dry up, if only because sex becomes painful. While many women are spared these problems in their 50s, the odds are they will strike to some degree within a decade of menopause...
...books comes from his ability to regard the oldest profession in the world (the words "I love you") with a youthful sense of playfulness and discovery. Here he offers disquisitions on the "love right angle," "psychological hypochondria" and "jollyism" and likens the self, in quick succession, to a tumble dryer, a weather pattern and a TV set. The pages of the novel are sprinkled with diagrams, floor plans of the heart and even a picture of a can of Campbell's soup-which reflect, in their way, the games and strategies we practice in love. "I love you," De Botton...
...washed his clothes at college for the first time, he experienced no difficulties. However, doing laundry did not prove a simple task for another first-year Liu encountered. "This girl asked me if I had any quarters, and I saw that the clothes she had put in the dryer weren't wet," Liu recalls, "So I said, 'Uh...don't you have to wash your clothes before you dry them?' and she was kind of embarrassed when she had to clean out all this detergent powder from the dryer...
...person actually caught in a peculiar laundry situation? Jay B. Shah '98 knows the feeling. "I was kind of down on this really cold day, and I kept falling asleep in my chair while waiting for my clothes to dry," Shah describes, "I felt the dryer, and it was nice and warm, so I put my head on top of it. Then the dryer stopped. As I opened it, warm air rushed out at me and lulled me right to sleep. I must have been asleep with my head in the dryer for about fifteen minutes when I woke...
Freak? We think not. Rest assured, Jay, it could've happened to anyone. But the girl who put detergent in the dryer...now that's a freak...