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Shipley, who led a successful campaign to make oral contraceptives free of charge for all women in New Zealand, said that the affirmative action legislation reflects her belief that lawmakers must enact programs that realize the wishes and way of life of the country’s citizens...
...must mention, just in passing, another of cigarettes' metaphorical potencies. "Smo-kin'!" exclaims Jim Carrey's frenetic alter ego in "The Mask"; and we know he is referring to a different -king. Smoking is, at heart, oral gratification. There is, shall we say, a certain sexual implication in putting our lips around a long, thin object, ingesting its essence into the mouth, perhaps swallowing it, then expelling it. Put this way, the act of smoking is, literally, a blow job. And the ritual "smoke after sex" - is this not the reward for all the exertion of coupling? For some smokers...
...Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco (Fantagraphics Books; 2000) Sacco brings journalism to comics in this oral history of life in the beleaguered Bosnian city of Gorazde during the Balkans crisis of the 1990s. Along with his previous series "Palestine" and his latest book, "The Fixer," Sacco has almost single-handedly created a vital non-fiction graphic sub-genre...
...read his life story on the houses and storefronts here, in this now-bustling, once backwoods home of Virginia Tech. Some of those stories are locked in the collective memories of those who spent time with him. Others, more rarely told, are forever lost. Such is the tragedy of oral history...
...when I get back to school." And kids are picking up computer skills along the way: watching the fifth-graders touch-type would make an executive secretary weep. They're whizzes at video production. They speak PowerPoint like it's their mother tongue--it's how they do their oral reports. The kids at Packer have become one with their computers--and the Net that connects them--in a way that we, the generation that built those computers, will never grasp...