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Words and images can perpetuate racial stereotypes, even if that is not the intent of the speaker, writer or cartoonist. Michael K. Ng...
...over the age of 70, a group of experts recently concluded, are not likely to benefit from a rigorous cholesterol-lowering regimen. But for people at high risk of dying from heart disease -- especially the 1.5 million Americans who will suffer heart attacks this year -- the new cholesterol-loweri ng drugs may mean the difference between life and death...
...practical: Carlos was expendable. Sudan saw more to gain by turning him over to the West than by harboring him. Barely 24 hours after Carlos was placed in French custody, Khartoum officials trumpeted their cooperation and called on the U.S. to remove Sudan from its blacklist of terrorist-sponsori ng nations. Unimpressed, Washington demurred. Carlos, it seemed, was no longer much of a catch. With communism discredited and the Middle East bent on peace, his revolutionary credentials had outlived their usefulness. His penchant for whiskey, women and penthouse suites had earned him a reputation for being more trouble than...
...consider the matter of wife battery. We managed to dodge it in the Bobbitt case and downplay it as a force in Tonya Harding's life. Thanks to O.J., though, we're caught up now in a mass consciousness-raisi ng session, grimly absorbing the fact that in some areas domestic violence sends as many women to emergency rooms as any other form of illness, injury or assault...
...Yang (Lawrence Ng), a handsome and charismatic young scholar, marries the buxom, beautiful and prudish Yuk Heung (Amy Yip). After a comically disastrous wedding night, Mei Yang initiates his wife into the pleasures of sex. Failing to heed the advice of an elderly monk, Mei Yang leaves Yuk Heung in order to pursue a life of ordered womanizing. A pitiful Don Juan with a beleaguered Leporello, Mei Yang discovers that he is, comment dit-on, unequipped for the task. In a riotously slapstick scene, he submits to an operation in which a horse's member replaces his inadequate...