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...passenger seat. Reality is deadly stuff. What men do is put in long hours in front of the tube, thanklessly exposing their eyeballs to radiation because not to know at work the next day precisely how the Red Sox lost yet another game is to risk career prolapsus. Working women may still spend three hours a day doing housework and their husbands only 17 minutes, as a 1965-66 study cited in The Second Shift claims. But watching baseball is hard, dull work -- nobody likes it -- and it takes a lot of time. Look, can we talk about this between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Myth of Male Housework | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

Before the old Pure Food & Drugs Act was passed in 1906, the label on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound proclaimed the tonic "A Sure Cure for Prolapsus Uteri or Falling of the Womb, and . . . All Weaknesses of the Generative Organs of Either Sex." Since 1906 the label has been modified several times to sidestep run-ins with Federal authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lydia Pinkham's New Dress | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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