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Prep schools get an extraordinarily bad rap in popular culture, but it doesn't end there. Consider how former President George Bush was consistently maligned because of his preppy background (Andover '42). Recall the flap over President Clinton's decision to send First Daughter Chelsea to private school...
Somewhere about this point, the specter of determinism begins once again to flap and cackle. If science is going to probe and prod and then announce that we are all scientifically fated to love -- and to love preprogrammed types -- by our genes and chemicals, then a lot of people would just as soon not know. If there truly is a biological predisposition to love, as more and more scientists are coming to believe, what follows is a recognition of the amazing diversity in the ways humans have chosen to express the feeling. The cartoon images of cavemen bopping cavewomen over...
...phone flap is the latest in a series of scares linking everyday electrical objects (hair dryers, electric razors, electric blankets, home computers) to one dread disease or another. Most of the concern has focused on the low-frequency end of the spectrum: the electromagnetic fields surrounding power lines, electric motors and video-display terminals. Cellular phones occupy another part of the spectrum. They send their signals using very small bursts of high-frequency electromagnetic waves, or microwaves, favored for most over-the-air telecommunications...
Stern and his groupies keep popping up, guerrilla-like, across the media landscape. Appearing with Jay Leno on the Tonight show during Leno's flap with < Arsenio Hall, Stern threw fuel on the flames by trashing Hall (a "moron") as well as former Johnny Carson cronies Doc Severinsen and Ed McMahon ("two of the biggest loads on two feet"). At her press conference last spring, Bill Clinton's alleged ex-girlfriend Gennifer Flowers was taken aback when a Stern reporter asked whether Clinton used a condom. When Today's Katie Couric opened the phone lines during a June appearance...
Hillary has said only that she foresees a more "comprehensive" White House role for herself than that undertaken by previous First Ladies. Actually ) naming her chief of staff would cause a flap; but if Clinton won't take such a precedent-setting step, he will have to find someone of comparable skills or risk seeing his presidency go the way of Carter...