Word: seriousness
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Welcome to the world of the incredible shrinking word. Fading sight is a common sign of aging, as are a host of more serious vision problems such as macular degeneration, glaucoma and cataracts. Others have been here before, of course. But because baby boomers are arriving in droves, these difficulties are getting an unprecedented amount of attention. Medical science has developed impressive techniques using lasers and corneal implants to correct vision defects. Some people, however, still need bigger type in order to read comfortably--and the publishing industry is coming to their rescue...
...SITES The bad news: everything you could possibly not want your kids to see is out there, and a lot more besides. The good news: most SEX sites are serious businesses and require log-ins and credit cards. Still, they're easy to stumble across and heavily publicized, and even their open-to-the-public home pages can be XXX-rated...
...three-hour meeting irate. The most overheated Republicans compared Lee to Klaus Fuchs, the Los Alamos scientist who passed atomic secrets to the Soviets in the 1940s. Even Democrats raged. "It's not even a close call," said Nebraska Democrat Bob Kerrey. "This is an extremely serious national-security issue that was not given a sufficient amount of attention...
...short, the FDA has unofficially launched a gigantic, uncontrolled experiment on the U.S. population, much as it did with the diet drug Redux in 1996 and the impotence pill Viagra in 1998. The Redux fad ended abruptly a year later when some users developed serious heart-valve defects--and major side effects are always a possibility with Xenical as well. With Redux, though, hints of danger had shown up in clinical testing. That's not true of orlistat, either in animals or in human studies conducted in some of the 17 countries where the medication is already available. (An initial...
...exhibition itself is sober, clearly set out and--given some of the Whitney's embarrassing efforts in the past to swamp serious art with intrusive audiovisual aids like at the 1995 Edward Hopper show--fairly short on hoopla. It touches upon all the major American movements of the 20th century and does it with balance and care and, in general, a keen eye for the best examples. If you want a short account of the turn-of-the-century New York realist group known as the Ashcan School (Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Bellows and others), the selection here could...