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There are other objects that could convey to future Americans the majesty and the trivia, the glory and the pity of the current era. Some proposals: a la ser rod and a citizen's band radio; the Pill and Gatorade; a shoe from Natalia Makarova and a Frisbee; a Beatles' record and a segment from the Watergate tapes; a Big Mac hamburger and a chunk of moon rock. It says something about the vitality, not to say incoherence of the times, that the list could be endless - and fascinating in its contrasts...
...County, Ohio, late Wednesday night and took an undetermined amount of Dalmane. The next morning his wife Pat could not rouse him. He was rushed to an intensive care unit by ambulance. At first, Phillips insisted that the weakened Hays, who is 65, had merely overreacted to a Dalmane pill. After the patient was out of danger, the doctor had another reading: "There is no question that he overdosed, but to say whether it was accidental or purposeful at this time would be pure speculation." Associates both in Ohio and on Capitol Hill said that Hays had been despondent...
...also sold in pill form under various labels, including vitamin...
...religious beliefs down someone else's throat." Jan Slevin, a nurse, refused to work in the obstetrics unit of Washington General Hospital because of the many abortions performed there. "In a case of incest, rape or some psychological trauma," she concedes, "I can see a morning-after pill or a shot to prevent pregnancy. But I think abortion is morally evil. It is a taking of life...
...have come tumbling wildly off the presses--face it, the subject's in vogue. Men rarely get written about because of their gender, but because they are truck drivers, astronauts, doctors or otherwise good at doing something. Books about women tend to deal with insanity, love, divorce, orgasms, the pill, the shape of their bodies (not from an athletic point of view)--subjects related to what women are, not what they do. The major task and concern of women has traditionally been to be enough, rather than to get enough, or do enough, and somehow all the recent attention still...