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...ancient Chinese depicted Chaos as an enormous egg whose parts separated into earth and sky, yin and yang. The Greeks believed Gaia, the earth, was created immediately after Chaos and gave birth to the gods. In many pagan societies, the earth was seen as a mother, a fertile giver of life. Nature -- the soil, forest, sea -- was endowed with divinity, and mortals were subordinate...
...chance to go to college to work at the nearby Silver Threads Nursing Home, where she remains a geriatric nursing assistant. He, quietly frustrated by knowing all there is to know about cutting 45 degrees angles in strips of wood, plays solitaire for relief. Maggie, the care giver, has found her niche propping the pillows and emptying the bedpans of the elderly. She is never bored...
...whether gatekeepers and photographers not protected by the start house could survive until officials admitted that the mountain gods were in no mood for a ski race. Back at ABC's hype central, talkers with dead air to fill turned to -- who else? -- Dr. Ruth, TV's advice giver to the sexlorn. Bearing in mind that the downhill demands superb reflexes and great stamina, did she counsel sex for the athletes in the 24 hours before the race? "Vell," said this ever reasonable sage in her schlagobers accent, making love all night wasn't a good idea, "but a qvickie...
...found out there," she bristles. In one home the "kids were all lined up in front of the TV like a bunch of zombies." At another she was appalled by the filth. "I sat my girl down on the cleanest spot I could find and started interviewing the care giver. And you know what she did?" asks the incredulous mother. "She began throwing empty yogurt cups at my child's head. As though that was playful...
...bitter, remorseful and full of resolution. The easy tolerance of the late 1960s, when turning on was a statement of personal freedom, has turned to dread. Cocaine, the glamour dust of the late '70s -- fast, clean, fun! -- has been boiled down to hard and mean little pellets of crack, giver of euphoria, taker of lives. To a nation that espouses self-reliance, drug dependence has emerged as the dark side of the American character, the price of freedom to fail. It is as if America, so vain and self-consciously fit, has looked upon itself and suddenly seen the hideously...