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...also help to remember that fitness as a means of courting Aphrodite has a long, respectable history. The canny Sheik Nefzawi listed bodily health as one of eight essentials for sexual delight. The other seven: "Absence of all care and worry, an unembarrassed mind, natural gaiety of the spirit, good nourishment, wealth, the variety of the faces of women and the variety of their complexions." And maybe just once in a while it wouldn't hurt to have a nice glass of camel's milk mixed with honey...
Professional organizers are also in demand. Stephanie Culp of Los Angeles is a pleasant, schoolmarmish woman who seven years ago turned her personal inclinations ("I was neurotically organized") into a career. "If I said I was a professional organizer seven years ago, people would have laughed," she says. "Now the idea is accepted." Culp's golden rule is to set priorities, and she's not kidding. "When you die, what do you want people to say at your funeral?" she asked California businesswoman Baker-Velasquez. Answer: "I didn't want my children to say, 'My mother was a wonderful businesswoman...
After the session, Koop gently addressed Mapplethorpe's illness, turning to , the artist before saying goodbye: "I hope it goes well for you." Thirty- seven days later, on March 9, Mapplethorpe died at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. He was 42. The Koop photograph turned out to be Mapplethorpe's last portrait assignment...
...Palestinians called a "massacre," the Israelis shot and killed four more villagers and wounded 25 others. The next day, Israeli troops sealed off the main cities in the West Bank. For the first time, Palestinians from the territories were prohibited from praying at Jerusalem's al Aqsa Mosque. But seven more Palestinians were shot and killed in rioting that broke out in the West Bank...
Diet members of all ranks, moreover, are routinely expected to ante up for their constituents at weddings, funerals and other rites of passage. A survey of 89 Diet members by the daily Asahi Shimbun showed that each spent about $4,200 a month on an average of seven weddings and 27 funerals. Thus, despite the call by Takeshita and others for campaign-financing reform, University of Tokyo political scientist Takashi Inoguchi remains pessimistic. Says he: "How can we carry out reforms when even the voters are getting money...