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...information about how she spends her time each week. We follow her through a week and see her travel three hours a day on public transportation, prepare meals for her family, work in a high-pressure research job, attend a workplace propaganda class and rush out to the beauty parlor on a quick break from work. For her, attending to her beauty is a renewing process. It does not wear her down. She is not trying to "keep" her husband. She is not trying to look like models in fashion magazines. She is going to the hairdresser...
...hour call, the amount of time doctors spend with members and their children. While B.H.C.A.G. contracts with groups, employees choose which groups to join and which doctors within a group to consult. Supposedly they can now do so the same way they pick a barber shop or beauty parlor: weighing price against location, hours, type of facilities, number of doctors available, specialties in treating diseases. Plus, of course, those computerized pitches from doctors...
Recently, I was in an ice-cream parlor in San Francisco that served the sort of fresh-fruit drinks sometimes called smoothies, and I noticed that the add-ins you could get in your smoothie (most of them for an extra 50[cents]), were listed as follows: "spirulina, bee pollen, brewer's yeast, calcium, ginseng, lecithin, protein powder mix, vitamins & minerals, and wheat germ." In Kansas City, people would pay a lot more than 50[cents] to have any of those things removed from whatever they were eating and replaced with Betty Lucas' chicken batter...
...lies an ideology of rugged individualism that is encapsulated by the free market. Social Security is a highly redistributive program that, in old age, seeks to ensure a minimum level of subsistence for all Americans. Privatization may be the solution for garbage collection and management of the Congressional beauty parlor, but it will ruin Social Security precisely because social security is one of those things that the market can not provide...
Artis Spears, the co-owner of a Cambridge funeral parlor, was unanimously selected as the first choice for Election Commissioner by the Cambridge Republican City Committee last week...