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...right. Dissatisfied from the start with her birthright (fancy German Jewish on her mother's side, plain East European on her father's) and her looks (no blond curls or rosebud mouth), Hellman felt she "didn't get anything of what I wanted." She began lying as soon as she could tell a story. One of the first concerned a black woman named Sophronia, who worked for the family briefly during Hellman's babyhood, but was transformed into the main nurturing figure of her life. Later, says Mellen, "an enlarged photograph of Sophronia holding a tiny, impish Lillian...
...shown to increase the risk of serious pelvic infections. The anti-fertility effects, the study found, remain in force even if a would-be mother douches many days before or after having sex. It also doesn't matter whether women use commercial douches, mix vinegar and water or use plain water. But as TIME's Janice Horowitz cautions: "This doesn't mean that women should consider douching as their method of birth control. It's nowhere close to 100 percent effective." Jenifer Mattos
Oddly enough, a day or two after I heard that the Internet was comparable to an abused Maytag, I was told about another impending technological disaster. "It never rains but it pours," my mother used to say--and she said that before the invention of even the plain-paper fax. A woman I know who works in data processing told me that even if many expensive adjustments are made beforehand, the year 2000 is likely to wreak havoc with the records of the financial industry...
...Ficken Slayer. Stay with me here on this one. The men's soccer team was playing highly-ranked Columbia at Ohiri Field in its Ivy League opener. As Harvard was seizing more and more control of the play in its 3-0 win, Columbia coach Dieter Ficken was just plain losing...
After that disappointment, the Crimson (9-17-1, 3-12-1 ECAC) fell into a rut that turned its season into a rebuilding one, plain and simple...