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...backlash is spreading across the cultural plains. A newly expanded edition of The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, written by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, has just come out, with its tongue-in- cheek catalog of p.c. terms. (Looters are now ''nontraditional shoppers.'') At Hooters, a fast-growing Atlanta-based restaurant chain, waitresses call themselves ''Hooters Girls,'' wear revealing skintight outfits, and appear on trading cards that trumpet their measurements. Says Scott Allmendinger, editor of Restaurant Business: ''There's a mainstream of the American public that's just tired of being politically correct.'' And another stream that is still...
...disease speculated that AIDS will multiply more than ten times by the end of 1991, the caseload rising from 21,517 known cases to 270,000, the death toll from the 11,713 so far to 179,000. Increasingly, AIDS will afflict heterosexuals, and it will spread fast outside of such hard- hit cities as San Francisco and New York. An estimated 1 million to 1.5 million Americans have been exposed to the AIDS virus, and up to 30% of these could develop the syndrome...
...based components of a strategic defense system,'' says former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, ''than it is to destroy the ballistic missiles.'' Nor would defenders have much time to identify and hit a missile during this initial stage. Today the Soviet ICBM boost phase lasts up to five minutes. ''Fast-burn booster'' technology now in development may cut that time to as little as 50 seconds--a ''short fighting window.'' Missiles that escape the boost phase and enter midcourse flight present an overwhelming problem. By that time they have released their re-entry vehicles (warheads aimed at U.S. targets...
...White House view of the matter. Maybe it's his view, but I can't understand the rationale for it.'' The rationale, according to those who advocate a system to protect silos, is that they are now vulnerable to a pre-emptive attack by the Soviets' vast arsenal of fast, accurate warheads. At the conference, Walter Slocombe, who during the Carter Administration held a Pentagon post comparable to the one now occupied by Perle, agreed that ''in principle'' defending silos is ''not a bad idea.'' But, he argued, there are cheaper and more reliable ways to defend the U.S. capability...
...weeks before opening, Bat-ticipation was ratcheted so high that Dark Knight screenings were selling out online as fast as theaters could add them. The AMC South Barrington in Chicago planned to show the movie on six screens and ended up ordering more prints in order to play it on 18. A planned Friday midnight showing at Hollywood's Cinerama Dome sold out so quickly, its adjoining theater, the ArcLight, added 13 midnight screenings. Those midnight shows broke another record, earning $18.5 million, to beat out Star Wars, Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith's 2005 record...