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...certified pediatric nurse practitioner, I am constantly preaching to families that the real trick to not getting sick is eating healthy, getting vaccinated and exercising. If we can get more kids and their families to follow this advice, the next generation of adults will be healthier. KATHY FERTIG Santa...
...machine IBM showed off last week has important technical advances. "The PC AT represents a leap in technology," says Robert Fertig, president of Enterprise Information Systems, a Connecticut research firm. "This is a real breakthrough." At the computer's heart is a new microprocessor called the 80286, made by Intel and licensed to IBM for manufacture. It handles information two to three times faster than the older design used in the PC and PC XT. The new chip enables the machine to run complicated programs that previously could work only on larger minicomputers. The Intel 80286 also makes...
...black fishnet stockings, and a tightly drawn wimple that sometimes fails to hold in an unruly shock of red hair. These have become the transvestite trademarks of Sister Boom Boom, member of the Order of Perpetual Indulgence, and the drag creation of a 29-year-old astrologer named Jack Fertig. Part put-on artist and part self-promoter, Boom Boom sparks reactions that run the gamut from righteous outrage to raucous approbation. Outside San Francisco, Fertig's bizarre alter ego has come to symbolize a climate of tolerance gone haywire...
Boom Boom's "order," which consists of about 20 other "nuns" who go by names like Sister Mary Media and Sister Sadie Sadie Rabbi Lady, has performed legitimate charity work by raising funds for AIDS victims and gay Cuban refugees. Fertig ran for the board of supervisors in 1982; with five seats open, he placed a respectable eighth, collecting 23,124 votes. Even some gays find it offensive when he wears a cross as part of his costume or mocks the sacred. But Fertig insists that he is genuinely, if not conventionally, pious. "The sisters share my own sense...
...More people will come to Harvard Square to look for books," added Pangloss Manager David I Fertig. "The more bookstores the merrier...