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...increasingly crowded stand-up stage, Carlin remains in a spotlight by himself. Most current TV comics are interchangeable: dispensing predictable, painless gags about '90s values, sexual gamesmanship, TV sitcoms and Dan Quayle. After three decades in the business, Carlin, who turns 54 this week, is still testing the limits, challenging his audience, shouting from the depths of his social-activist soul...
...PLACE TO MURDER A WOMAN IS IN THE home. On the day after Christmas, when Isabelle Barney looked through the peephole of her front door, someone shot her in the eye. A considerate death: painless and not much damage to the door. In "I" IS FOR INNOCENT (Henry Holt; $18.95), her best-crafted alphabetical mystery yet, Sue Grafton sends p.i. Kinsey Millhone around the small city of Santa Teresa, Calif., as if her 1974 VW were the pencil in a follow-the-dots puzzle. Armed with matchless powers of observation ("I pictured . . . his nose pierced, a tiny ruby sitting...
Spend Today and Retire Tomorrow may sound like a reckless attitude toward the future, but it could be a painless way to set something aside for the golden years. Launched last week in surburban Washington, START lets people have their nest egg and spend it too. To enter the plan, a consumer pays a one-time enrollment fee of $25. Whenever a member buys something from a participating % company, 1% of the purchase price is put into escrow. Once the escrow balance reaches $100, members can open up a START Plus annuity account. Each account receives a 1% contribution...
Tsongas admits there is no painless way to make a transition to his new plan for America. The decision to downsize our arsenal will cost many jobs and job retraining expenditures. The reduction of our debt will take fiscal discipline and commitment. Again, Tsongas economic plan--developed with famous MIT economist Lester Thurow--is clear...
Admittedly, micromastia is in some ways an atypical disease. It is painless, which is why many victims put off treatment for years, and it in no way diminishes breast function, if that is still defined as lactation. The implants, on the other hand, can interfere with lactation, and they make mammograms less able to find cancer (not to mention the potential for a disfiguring or life-threatening side effect like lupus or scleroderma). But so what if micromastia has no functional impact? Why can't a disease be manifested solely by size...