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Under the mild satire, the book suffices well enough as a how-to guide for aspiring Yuppies from the provinces who desperately want to avoid appearing gauche in the big city. Having it both ways probably means that the authors will achieve a cardinal Yuppie goal: an income in six figures...
...pink flowers ... that blondes give out when they sweat." For the child's seducer, even the surrounding countryside seems suffused with his desire: "I was listening to the noise of the wind which ... was sobbing under the doors and bringing us through the open windows-it was very mild-a poignant smell from the terrace outside-the smell of dampness before rain, of flowers when the season of flowers is over...
...Soviets concluded that they had been wrong about him. Americans often remark that Reagan's bark has been worse than his bite. After all, he lifted the embargo that Carter had clamped on U.S. grain sales to the Soviet Union following the invasion of Afghanistan and proposed only mild and ineffectual economic sanctions in response to the imposition of martial law in Poland. But the Soviets have come to take Reagan at his word. Says a Kremlin specialist on American affairs: "With Carter, it was always interesting to read a speech and say, 'Aha, [former Secretary of State Cyrus] Vance...
...institute's study does not challenge these applications of surgery. Instead, it focuses on whether or not bypass operations extend the life of patients with less severe heart disease. Some of those selected for the study were suffering from mild to moderate angina, the viselike chest pains that signal a decreased supply of blood to the heart; others had a history of one or more heart attacks but did not have recurrent chest pains. The 780 participants, all under age 65, were randomly treated either with bypass surgery or with drugs, such as nitroglycerin and diuretics, that ease pain...
Other Depo-Provera programs are under way in at least six locations. A program at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem also includes "aversion therapy," in which sex offenders are shown sexually enticing slides and are subjected to foul odors or mild electric shocks if they become aroused because of deviant feelings. Not all specialists in the field are impressed by these experiments. Richard Seely, who runs a highly regarded psychotherapeutic program for rapists and child molesters in Minnesota, considers Depo-Provera dangerous. He cites two men who became so depressed while taking it that they committed suicide...