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...study which appeared in the October 21 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine shows that the incidence of ovarian cancer among women between the ages of 40 and 99 who had previously used the pill was 11 percent loss than woman...
...ruminations get to you. No, the Tylenol case is not quite like the Son of Sam killings or the Mad Bomber or the Atlanta murders, and not only because these latest deaths are more random. There is something about the will involved, the you involved, plucking the particular little pill box that your hand has settled on, then standing politely in a row, ready to pay for your medicine. The trouble with poison is that you take it yourself, even when the murderer has spiked the gum on the envelope or when a Borgia has switched the wine...
Such gestures constitute normality. In the millions and woven together, they combine to construct what we shyly call civilization, as does the work of the company that makes the pill, the one that packs and distributes it, the Government agency that examines and sanctions it, the store that stocks and sells it, and so forth, all tied together by nettings in which life hangs, as they say, in the balance. Fascinating, how easily that balance can be threatened. Fascinating too how it protects and sustains itself...
According to Yergin, interviewed in his K-School office, Americans find it very comforting to have a "1950s attitude of energy self-sufficiency" currently fashionable in Washington. But behind that sugar coating of "limitless domestic resources" is the bitter pill of the West's future energy vulnerability...
...real world, equally obvious changes were taking hold. The twin demands of feminism and a new imperial economy paroled the American woman from her domestic cage. With the Pill, technology undermined conservative morality. Couples could have only as many children as they wanted, or no children at all. Freedom from the biological imperative has been followed by an economic imperative: earning her way, single or married. More than half of all American women ? indeed, more than half the U.S. married mothers ? are in the labor force. There a woman must collaborate and compete with men, as other...