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...chance of that. By a 534-to-31 vote the Presbyterians last week rejected the controversial report. They also issued an outright disavowal of the practice of homosexuality and affirmed "the sanctity of the marital covenant between one man and one woman." But the raucous debate that led up to the vote, and that will surely follow it, showed that three decades after the sexual revolution started to percolate through American society, the relationship between God and sex is again throwing some of the country's most important religious denominations into turmoil...
...Federal Trade Commission has cracked down on a handful of infomercials for unsubstantiated claims, misrepresentation or outright fraud. One was the EuroTrym Diet Patch, an adhesive disk that attached to the skin and was supposed to curb the appetite. (It didn't.) The producer was slapped with a $1.5 million fine for making false claims for the device, as well as for two other products, Y-Bron, an impotence remedy, and Foliplexx, a treatment for baldness. At least six more infomercials are currently under investigation. "People are mesmerized by TV," says Barry Cutler, director of the FTC's Bureau...
Despite sitting out his senior year, Callahan's Harvard football experience was an extremely positive one. He has the pleasant memory of the Crimson's unlikely 37-20 victory over Yale in 1989, which robbed the Elis of the outright Ivy title. And most of all, Callahan had the great distinction of being elected by his teammates as the Crimson's leader...
...many poor and low-income women who cannot afford private medical advice, thereby placing informed choice beyond their reach. "For these women," Justice Harry Blackmun warned in a harsh dissenting opinion, "the government will have obliterated the freedom to choose as surely as if it had banned abortions outright." The court's action set pro- and anti- abortion advocates at one another again, arguing the merits of the decision itself and predicting fearfully or hopefully that the court will next go the full distance and outlaw abortion altogether...
...third of the population back in 1950. Yet as America's cities and villages have dissolved into vast suburban nebulas, no one seems entirely happy with the result. From Riverside County in southern California to Fairfax County in northern Virginia, new American suburbs tend to be disappointments, if not outright failures. Traffic jams are regularly as bad as anything in the fearsome, loathsome city. Waste problems can be worse. Boundaries are ill defined; town centers are nonexistent. Too often, there's no there there...