Word: ironed
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These activities do constitute a kind of movement, but it is a spiritual one. The white-haired guru of this transformation is the poet Robert Bly, whose book Iron John has been on the best-seller list for more than seven months. Bly and his fellow wise men believe that since the Industrial Revolution, when fathers left the home to work in offices and factories, boys have been raised by women and co-opted by a female view of masculinity. Later, the women's movement came along, creating an epidemic of what Bly calls "soft males," men who lacked fierceness...
...life could once again be snuffed out by a collision with an icy comet? Rather small, but there are plenty of asteroids in the heavens capable of causing devastation. Astronomers have identified more than 130 asteroids whose paths could intersect earth's orbit. Consisting largely of rock or iron, some are over a mile wide and could ram the earth at 65,000 km (40,000 miles) per hour. The odds of a strike within the next 50 years are probably less than one in 10,000. But whenever it does happen, the explosion could dwarf a nuclear bomb blast...
...usually in the late-night hours. For TV stations, these program-length ads provide a tidy source of revenue from little watched time periods. (Half an hour of postmidnight airtime can bring in between $5,000 and $20,000 in big-city markets.) For an advertiser with a steam iron or self-help course to flog, an infomercial can be a good way to corral viewers for a long, hard sell. A 30-minute ad for a hand mixer from Kitchenmate cost just $125,000 to make and has generated $55 million in sales, according to its producer, the Guthy...
Gorbachev dispatched Soviet Chief of Staff Mikhail Moiseyev to Washington last week to try to iron out the last issues blocking ratification of the treaty reducing non-nuclear forces in Europe that was signed last fall. Some progress was made, but at week's end there was still no agreement. The U.S. is determined not to let the Soviets cheat by failing to make some troop withdrawals that Washington believes the treaty demands. But the numbers involved are so small that U.S. negotiators cannot believe a desire to keep those forces in place is the real Soviet motive for recalcitrance...
...Mitterrand's Iron Lady," as the French press has dubbed her, replaces Michel Rocard, 60, whose three-year-old government was having increasing trouble piecing together parliamentary majorities even as it battled a burgeoning campaign-finance scandal. The unenviable task of damage control now falls on Cresson, leaving Rocard free to pursue his 1995 presidential ambitions...