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While the album isn't a breakout masterpiece, Francine is a band that knows what its listeners want-quirky background songs that sound happy but have morbid depressing lyrics. Forty on a Fall Day would be a better album if it were shorter and more inventive, but count Francine as one more contribution to the seemingly endless supply of indie...
...workers ages 21 to 35, there is now almost no difference in full-time pay between single women and single men--but not so working brides. New studies show that married women who work make 3% less than their male counterparts. When children arrive and women start working shorter hours and taking longer leaves than their male co-workers, the wage gap grows...
...TIME: With Steve Martin?s name on the dustjacket, some readers will be expecting comedy. Your shorter fiction is laugh-out-loud funny ? as I can testify, by citing complaints from people near me when I?ve read it. "Shopgirl" is different, of course. If you were to tape-record someone reading this book in an otherwise silent room, then play back the tape, what would you hear...
...researchers found that the shorter AZT treatment, although not quite as effective, can still reduce perinatal transmission--and at one-fifth the usual cost...
Ninety-five percent of the 1,500 infants infected with HIV live in countries too poor to mount an effective prevention effort, according to the press release. But with shorter and less expensive treatments now proven feasible, prevention efforts will be boosted...