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...JANE MONAHAN -- Decatur...
...hardly needs graphic sex to be entertained—Jane Austen remains wildly popular, after all. A good writer’s illuminating prose and tense plot set-ups would be more than adequate substitutes for detailed bedroom scenes. But Krinsky’s vapid characters are so irritating that halfway through, the reader might begin praying for them to start randomly coupling. The most provocative parts of “Chloe” are its slightly altered chapter-ending reprints of Krinsky’s actual “Sex and the (Elm) City” columns (now bylined...
...mint-condition Queen Anne highboy or Paul Revere candlesticks may be coveted objects to the average antique hound. But two chemists with the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are tracking down a more unusual relic: old air. Allen Ogard and Jane Poths are seeking samples of air that was sealed off decades or even centuries ago. Reason: to determine whether the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased in the two centuries since the start of the industrial revolution. By some calculations, the extensive burning of oil and other fossil fuels has added to the shield...
...advice, information, news and chat with the sort of one-on-one intimacy that slick, impersonal television cannot approach. "Radio personalities are not stars but friends," says Sally Jessy Raphael, whose friends include nearly 2 million weekly listeners to her weeknight radio advice program. "You don't know what Jane Pauley had for breakfast, but you know what I had. People regard their radio stations as an extended family...
Brinkley is not the first celebrity whose clothing line failed. Jane Fonda's exercising outfits were introduced in 1983, but they did poorly. Capri Beachwear, which marketed the apparel, filed for bankruptcy about a year later. Names can still help if the quality is good and the price is right. Tennis Player Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs have launched successful name-brand clothes in the past five years. AUTOS Resuscitating...