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After seven victims fell prey to the “Tylenol Killer,” who added cyanide to eight bottles of the medication in the Chicago area, the nation witnessed an outbreak of copy-cat attacks throughout the month of October. Other tampering incidents affected household products such as Visine eye drops and orange juice—but the biggest concern as the month came to a close was the seasonal staple: candy...
...Monica Lewinsky scandal], already a perp"), Morrison should reread the article she wrote for the New Yorker to see her original reasons [May 19]. They do not in any way resemble what she says now. Clinton, she wrote in October 1998, "displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas." Morrison should be more careful with words, since words are her profession. A. K. Barsotti, Las Vegas
...Manhattan real estate prices have skyrocketed, the district's legacy and its perch atop Central Park have enticed real estate developers searching for the next up-and-coming neighborhood. The rezoning augurs wholesale changes, including luxury office towers and apartments. Much of Harlem is still comparatively poor--the median household income hovers around $27,000--and Barron suspects that these gleaming additions will drive out locals unable to foot the rising rents. "Housing policies are the new Jim Crow policies for the 21st century," he says...
...kind of appeal it's hard to imagine working for Obama is a racial appeal; he knows he can't win as the Black Candidate. I remember watching Obama in a school auditorium in Berlin, N.H., this winter, long before Rev. Wright became a household name. One aging hippie-after saying he hoped his question "doesn't seem odd in the whitest place on earth"-asked Obama if he would launch another "national conversation about race," as President Clinton did. And Obama said: No. "I'm less interested in a conversation about race in the abstract," he said...
...among the elderly are rising. In 1975, for example, men 50 and older accounted for just 6.2% of divorces; that proportion rose to 18.8% in 2006. Some wives attribute this to "retired husband syndrome" - a condition in which a wife feels estranged after a husband's return to the household after decades of long hours at the office. Recent changes to divorce law also have loosened the purse strings that tie women to unhappy marriages. A law passed last year allows a divorcee to claim half of her husband's pension. Women have filed an estimated 95% of divorce applications...