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Luckily, for the fume-afflicted, there is hope in some preventative over-the-counter drugstore remedies. Everyone's favorite medical professional, Dr. Scholl's, has a massive stake in the market. With his baby powder scent Odor Destroyers sole inserts ($3.69), users can trim the one-size-fits-all slab of scented cushion to fit the bottom of any shoe. No lefty scissors handy? Realize that these pads might flip and flap away with flip-flops? Coat the inside of your shoe with the Doctor's Shoe Shot deodorant powder ($6.99), featuring a Toilet-Duckstyle neck and Zinoxol, "an advanced...
...children, for example, often suspect that schools try to deny their kids the help they need, and to which they are legally entitled, in order to save money. School officials counter that onerous regulations force them to spend more time worrying about potential lawsuits than about education. They also fume at parents who solicit bogus diagnoses of learning disabilities so their children will get more attention...
...patriotic duty to fume over the spike in gas prices, but like it or not, there's a paradox in our pique: America's love affair with cheap energy is precisely the reason that gas taxes should be higher. Bob Dole and Bill Clinton won't say so, of course. They're busy sparring over a repeal of the 4.3 cent-per-gal. gas tax the President included in his 1993 deficit-reduction plan. But pandering isn't inevitable: four years ago, Ross Perot and Paul Tsongas were calling for a new 50 cent-per-gal. tax to be phased...
...members of Charles' camp is that Diana's popularity is so far invulnerable. Media carping about her beauty and fitness regimens, her therapist Susie Orbach, her want of formal education, her abbreviated evening frocks, don't seem to have much impact. Nor does it seem to matter when critics fume that the Princess is expert in using the press and television to her own ends (as if Charles' staff and the Buck House operatives weren't trying hard for similar results). The immediate announcement of Charles' promises and the Panorama interview were Diana's brilliant pre-emptive strikes against...
Recently, ELIZABETH TAYLOR's life has been a bit of a bust for sensation junkies. Per fume launches and charity work are fine, but they don't evoke the Liz who made headlines just by quarreling with Richard Burton. So when "ol' violet eyes" announced that she and seventh husband LARRY FORTENSKY were undertaking a trial separation, people seemed less shocked than mildly nostalgic. "Let the tabloid games begin," Taylor said. But the tabs were already busy with fresh quarry--the rumor that J.F.K. Jr. had proposed to his girlfriend Carolyn Bessette...