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Straight people have embraced some pretty gay songs over the years (the Village People's Y.M.C.A., Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax, the Queen catalog). You can interpret this as the gradual acceptance of gay culture or as the mainstream's enduring obliviousness to it. (The Village People did not drop by the YMCA to pump iron.) Now here's a song about coming out to Mom by a group named after a lesbian sex act. You'd think only Liza Minnelli could mistake them for straight. But Take Your Mama also happens to be the most complete pop tune...
Brittle bones can be more than just a bother for anyone who is getting on in years. About 10 million Americans have osteoporosis--a gradual thinning of the bones--and 1.5 million of them will suffer a fracture this year. That's why doctors were so interested in a pair of studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week on the relationship between osteoporosis and a common amino acid called homocysteine. Not only do the reports suggest an easy way to determine early on who is most vulnerable to osteoporosis, but they also hint at a totally...
...institutions’ student governments, the council is drastically under-funded. While our council’s budget hovers near $200,000, the Undergraduate Assembly (UA) at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school of comparable size, controls a budget of more than $1.1 million. Those advocating a gradual increase in council funds, linked to an index of inflation, fail to realize the supreme inadequacy of the council’s current budget. At even the highest proposed annual rate of increase, six percent (a figure derived from the inflation index for Higher Education), it would take nearly...
Fighting Infection And Developing Heart disease don't seem at first to have much in common. Microbes, after all, attack from the outside in, whereas a heart attack is an inside-out job, a gradual gumming up of the body's plumbing system with cholesterol until blood flow to the heart almost comes to a standstill...
...Dean campaign’s gradual transition into a roaring success broke all the rules. “When I’d done trips for Al or Tipper Gore or for Hillary Clinton, the rule of thumb was, 100 people say they’re going to show up, 75 will,” says O’Mary. “If for Howard Dean 100 people said they were going to show up, you better have room...