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...Pioneer feminist Betty Friedan dismisses the book as an "obsolete rehash" and criticizes Wolf for dwelling on superficialities rather than coming to grips with the modern-day political challenges that confront females. While Friedan agrees that women often go to extremes in their pursuit of good looks, enduring repeated face-lifts and possibly risking their health by having silicone injected into their breasts, she thinks Wolf's book distorts the relationship between feminism and beauty. Women, she says, do not have to choose between the two, but can delight in a frivolous enjoyment of fashion without becoming a slave...
...Department of Health and Human Services. Though HHS warns that the effects of exposure to even moderate amounts of lead are more pervasive and long lasting than was previously thought, its plan optimistically outlines a program for eliminating lead poisoning in children within 20 years. Dr. Needleman, a pioneer investigator of the disorder at the University of Pittsburgh medical school, feels that the goal is attainable. "Lead poisoning is the most severe environmental disease in this country," he says, "and it is totally preventable...
Last year, Layzer and Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach teamed up to pioneer Chemistry 8 and 9, "Fundamentals of Physics and Chemistry," a full-year sequence designed to supplement the usual introductory fare pre-medical students are required to take...
Charles Mingus: Epitaph (Columbia). Composer-musicologist Gunther Schuller leads an all-star big band in a definitive live performance of the monumental suite -- raw, raucous and richly textured -- by a pioneer figure of modern jazz...
...Occidental, Texaco and Shell, every major international oil company has joined the hunt, which has turned the blue-green waters off the coast of Louisiana and Texas into one of the busiest exploration areas in North America. Even Petrobras, the national oil company of Brazil and a deep- drilling pioneer, has established a Houston-based subsidiary to get in on the action. The lure of the Gulf is irresistible: estimated oil reserves of up to 36 billion bbl., nearly four times as much as in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. Companies have snapped up nearly 1,700 federal drilling leases...