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...worth of charges in two months. Mountain Bell last month suspended the service in Utah until Ultraphone agreed to warn all callers about the fees as they rang on. Two weeks ago Mountain Bell canceled Scoopline in Albuquerque. Ultraphone has offered to provide a 24-hour adult monitor to police the chatter, a solution that seems to be working in Utah. Insists Betsy Superfon, vice president of Ultraphone: "Scoopline is a great way for people to meet new friends." But for youngsters in New Mexico the party is over -- at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teenagers: Bells Are Ringing | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...comedian. In this autobiography disguised as a letter to her three daughters, she runs through a series of blackout sketches that are by turns sad, hilarious and grotesque. Burnett grew up in a shabby Hollywood apartment with her beloved maternal grandmother. Nanny used to tie a rolled Christian Science Monitor around her waist so her "insides wouldn't fall out." She took Carol to the movies; then, "when it was time to go home, we'd go to the bathroom, and she'd empty all the toilet paper dispensers, sheet by sheet. And we'd be set for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Feb. 9, 1987 | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...senior monitor at the MAC estimates that 200-300 people flock to the five-year-old athletic facility every day. Working out "is becoming more and more popular," he says. "The sport is just mushrooming...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Weight to Go: | 2/6/1987 | See Source »

...thing to ban smoking on the job; that is already done by such organizations as the Christian Science Monitor and Greyhound. But labor lawyers are convinced that USG is treading on wispy legal ground in trying to extend its prohibition past working hours. USG's plan, they say, will run into problems of discrimination against minorities or against the physically disabled. Editorialized the Chicago Sun Times: "The issue here isn't whether smoking is good or bad. The issue is this: How far can an employer reach into the employees' personal lives? Not this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold Turkey | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...That's a VCR monitor, not a television set," Fisher points out emphatically. "I like to watch movies at night after dinner now that I can't get out much." Failing eyesight, severe arthritis and other infirmities are about the only limitations she accepts, and then only because she must. It is hard to reconcile the hands so stiff they can no longer type and the slow movement across the room with the gleam of the gray-green eyes, the brightly lipsticked smile, the clear voice and, most of all, the feisty opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: With Bold Pen and Fork | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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