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...perched at the stern of the ship. The trip costs as little as $50 a night, but food and drink aren't included and most cabins are windowless. And they're orange. Orange is everywhere. In the furniture, fixtures and staff uniforms. In the Sports Bar, bartenders struggle to lip-read orders...
MICHAEL MOORE is giving back to those who give lip. The rabble-rousing filmmaker created two $2,500 scholarships for "standing up to the administration" at California State University at San Marcos. When the school's president canceled Moore's planned talk there last fall, deeming him too "political" for campus, students protested and raised the money for an off-campus engagement themselves. The action inspired Moore to reward "a little bit of rebellion" there annually with cash, he said. Talk about inflation--in the '60s, kids rebelled for free...
...this is well and good, and it certainly makes privacy advocates happy to see their cause get some media lip service. There is, however, a competing trend with respect to privacy and the internet—a less intuitive trend, perhaps, but one that I think we’re all exposed to on a far more regular basis: it turns out, for the most part, we’re all dying to throw our privacy out the window entirely...
...some of Reagan's almost magical popularity, these figures could represent a dangerous temptation. Already, feeling appears to be growing in favor of raising the tariff walls as a quick way to remedy at least some of the nation's economic ills. The catch is that while people give lip service to protectionist ideas, Yankelovich has found that the sentiment is very shallow, and people's enthusiasm fades when it is pointed out that higher tariffs may result in consumers' paying more for imported goods...
Promptly removed, basal-cell carcinomas rarely pose a danger. There are several methods for getting rid of them. President Reagan's "pimple," and a similar growth on Nancy Reagan's upper lip in 1982, were excised by a procedure called curettage and electrodesiccation (see diagram) that usually takes five minutes. In this method, the dermatologist applies a local anesthetic and then scrapes away the soft, mushy tumor cells with a curette, an instrument with a sharp circular blade. Afterward, an electrified needle is applied to the area to destroy any remnants of malignancy. In the case of Nixon...