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Still, the industry's hold on its customers is secure, and one has only to prowl the stores to find out why. At Bloomingdale's in Manhattan last week, a blue-jeaned young woman sat at the counter being made up by a saleswoman while her husband watched eagerly. She hesitated at first when the bill for her face makeup?eye shadow, foundation, mascara, liners, lip pencils?came to $42. But she gave in and paid when her husband murmured, "You really look great, honey." Then he turned to the salesgirl and asked, "Isn't she pretty...
...found a world in which time had stood still. As Roger Lewin, an editor of Britain's New Scientist, reveals in Darwin's Forgotten World (Reed; $19.95), the clock is still stopped. Iguanas and other lizards, close relatives of the dinosaurs that have been extinct for millenniums, prowl the islands. Giant tortoises, resembling prehistoric tanks, lurch slowly along their beaches. Lewin, aided by Photographer Sally Anne Thompson, does his usual excellent job of showing what Darwin saw when he landed in this natural laboratory of evolution. And not a moment too soon. The Ecuadorian government, which owns these...
...David Glasgow Farragut ("Damn the torpedoes-full speed ahead!") was told he was to command the Union attack against New Orleans. And in a front room Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies, a melancholy prelude to many visits by the anguished Lincoln, who used to prowl the area...
...shut-off timers have been installed on everything from coffee makers to light switches in corridors. Any worker who wanders off leaving a piece of factory machinery running gets a large Day-Glo orange "energy conservation ticket" slapped on his equipment by company inspectors, who are constantly on the prowl for offenses...
...been attracted to Washington, where they prowl the halls of Congress and the corridors of HEW. They conquer by dividing. At their urging, Congress passes narrowly focused legislation?so-called categorical grants ?that explicitly directs the action HEW is to take. One example: the program to help handicapped children that puts extremely detailed and restrictive requirements on administrators...