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...They do not sharpen the nation's competitive edge. But let us not be unthankful for small things. ("Think about the foods you order and how attractive they are to be eaten," Bixler suggests. And would that more people did!) At least until the Japanese get hold of it, isn't image consulting what America the Beautiful is all about...
Sometimes, though, even the best efforts are not enough. If a woman "truly needs an order because a man is going to kill her, then a restraining order really isn't going to do anything," says Barbara Shaw, director of Project Safeguard, a program for battered women in Denver. "Sometimes there aren't a lot of safeguards other than disappearing." Lisa Bianco seemed to have accepted that sad fact. She told friends she wanted to improve her work skills, save some money and then move away before her ex-husband was eligible for parole next year. Denied the warning that...
...victory was Fish's last match as coach of the Harvard men's squash program. He isn't exactly leaving the program out in the cold. Fish will do everything that he did before but travel with the team. Meet Harvard's new associate squash coach, Dave Fish...
University of Washington ethicist Albert Jonsen is concerned that people with grave illnesses might be viewed simply as carriers of genetic traits. "Rather than saying 'Isn't that family unfortunate to have a schizophrenic son,' we'll say 'That's a schizophrenia family.' " Advocates for the handicapped fear that in the future the physically afflicted may no longer be seen as unfortunates worthy of special treatment, but as "wrongful births," genetic errors committed by parents who failed to take proper action against a defective gene...
...title role. Winner of a Tony Award last year in Burn This, Allen becomes a strong contender to repeat with a performance that displays much the same virtues: an inviting vulnerability, an approach to romance simultaneously fragile and fearless, a wit at once acerbic and diffident. While Wasserstein (Isn't It Romantic?) has written mostly whiny and self-congratulatory cliches for the surrounding characters, she has given Heidi -- or Allen has found -- a complex, self-aware and poignant life...