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...that aid will be inexhaustible." Nevertheless, at least one food-bank manager believes the increased demand is just part of the adjustment that must occur as welfare reform takes hold, a necessary transition to better times. Parke Hinman, who runs a food bank in Montgomery, Ala., has seen demand rise to include families with wage earners. But, he says, "if we can provide them food, we may be the boost they need to work themselves out of the circle of poverty." Well and good, says Ann Eissler, who coordinates the area's food banks, but "we're going to need...
...into the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, which sold out when Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano came out of hiding and sang baritone last week. The show spills onto the streets of Greenwich Village, where a woman in a sun hat looks up at the high-rise where reputed Mob boss Vincent ("the Chin") Gigante, the Oddfather who roamed the streets in his bathrobe, was her most famous neighbor...
Audiences today still get the irony of the Graduate line, although the aesthetic context has been altered now that, thanks to the rise of the postmodern sort of irony, cheesiness has hip cachet and plastic is no longer anathema. Indeed, the movie's mise-en-scene now has unintended resonances. While the filmmakers' intent was to fashion "a scarifying picture of the raw vulgarity of the swimming-pool rich," as Bosley Crowther wrote 30 years ago in the New York Times (this was an era when commentators were concerned with the social pathologies of the rich rather than the poor...
Although the number of dog bites that caused people to seek medical care increased from 1986 to 1994 [LIVING, June 23], dog-bite fatalities, tragic as they may be, are not on the rise: 10 to 15 have occurred each year for the past six years, and six have occurred thus far in 1997. An estimated 4.7 million people are bitten by dogs each year, and most of them are children. Dog-bite injuries are a largely preventable problem. Responsible dog ownership and public education are the keys to prevention. LESLIE SINCLAIR Director of Companion Animal Care Humane Society...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton presented legislation today which would bar health insurance companies from denying people health coverage on the basis of their genetic inheritance. With genetic testing for killers like breast cancer on the rise, such discrimination is "a life-threatening abuse of a potentially life-saving discovery," Clinton said. The President's remarks were echoed in a Department of Health and Human Services task force report which cautions that the benefits of genetic testing may never be realized if Americans decline them out of fear the information may be used against them. Clinton's legislation builds on existing...