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That's not to say the syndicated and cable shows are that much more liberated. But they're more libertine. They're unapologetically about the meat market--none of them have "Love" or "Marry" in their title--and they don't root themselves in cockamamie romantic truisms. For young viewers who spent their entire lives in the aids era, they're a safe fantasy of commitment-free dating, all about getting lucky, drunk and stupid with little at stake. (Which makes the herpes-medicine ads during the shows that much more unintentionally poignant.) Couples hook up--mostly, it seems...
...distributing informative pamphlets door-to-door. Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced the government was providing $10 million to study and fight the spread of West Nile virus, and scientists and researchers have descended on Louisiana, hoping to capture a few of the virulent bugs and root out more specifics on the disease...
...increasingly bitter dispute with former Crossair pilots. Their union has rejected a proposed 16% salary increase on top of last year's 28% raise, saying that former Swissair pilots were offered a better deal. Industry insiders say long-standing animosity between Swissair and Crossair pilots is at the root of the bickering. Different corporate cultures pitted the young and ambitious Crossair crew against the better-paid Swissair pilots, who, says aviation expert Sepp Moser, sometimes projected an arrogance that did not sit well with the regional carrier's staff. "The new company was formed from the ashes of two former...
...reader can never become exasperated with a writer who refers to sex as "a pelvis-to-pelvic impaction" or "root and canal work"; who acts as his own randy Roget, gleefully riffing on synonyms for roundness of breast ("rotundity, globularity, orbicularity and globosity") or anthropomorphizing his favorite female body part as "pouting, bulging, arching, ballooning, gravity-defying, ... surging, quivering, heaving, swaying, intoxicating, tantalizing, bouncing, suffocating, yes, even overwhelming...
Massage used to be practiced mostly at the social extremities, in the homes of the very wealthy or in seedy parlors where the handiwork was offered with euphemistic "happy endings." Its health benefits were championed in hard-core homeopathic enclaves, but then again, so was dandelion root. Now massage has gone mainstream. It's the feel-good equivalent of having your teeth cleaned, the more therapeutic version of getting a pedicure...