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...mention draws blank looks from some Catholic Gen-Xers. Why? Inhibitions unintentionally fostered by the Second Vatican Council may have had something to do with it. And certain women, writes author Sally Cunneen, were "inoculated against" the Virgin as they embraced feminism. Those inspired by the upcoming season to reflect on the Heavenly Mother's ups and downs (as well as those who remembered to celebrate the recent Feast of the Immaculate Conception) will lose themselves in two current books: Cunneen's In Search of Mary (Ballantine; $14) and Jaroslav Pelikan's Mary Through the Centuries (Yale University Press...
Fundamentally, though, the argument is simply that the CPI needs fixing to reflect reality. Explanations are often couched in arcane jargon, but the principles ought to ring a bell with anyone who kicks at a tire or wheels a cart through a food store...
...does not reflect quality improvements adequately. If radial tires last three to five times longer than the bias-ply tires they replaced, their price could go up in dollars but drop per mile driven. But the CPI reflects this only partly...
...prices the same products in the same stores at regular intervals. Thus it does not reflect the way consumers take advantage of weekend sales, buy at lower prices from catalogs and shift from neighborhood stores to big barns selling everything from tube socks to ridable snow blowers at discount prices...
...month to start playing less alternative rock and to program more of other genres, including electronic dance music and traditional pop, which could spell trouble for bands like the Presidents of the United States of America that have thrived on video exposure. "What MTV does is both lead and reflect what's going on out there," says MTV programming director Andy Schuon. Some observers partly blame the channel's haste to introduce new acts for the current industry downturn. "MTV often breaks acts too quickly," says a lawyer for several well-known pop acts. "As a result, bands...