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Many students looking for a hot shower to start off the day have instead found themselves gasping for breath under an icy stream of water...

Author: By Toyia R. Battle, | Title: Students Shiver Way Through Cold Showers | 11/15/1990 | See Source »

...what about love? I have a friend who believes people can only find happiness through romantic, passionate love, but then he's never taken a hot shower in a bathroom with really good water pressure...

Author: By Brian D. Reich, | Title: New York State of Mind | 11/13/1990 | See Source »

...says. "Now work has moved into geographically separate production centers and takes the form of specialized jobs that cannot be shared, swapped or carried on with a baby strapped to your back." Home has been left an impoverished place, little more than a dormitory, a spot for a shower and a change of clothes. And as mothers have increasingly departed for the office or factory, children's isolation from the adult world has accelerated dramatically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Family: The Great Experiment | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...going for tenure. A woman student complained, 'You haven't told us how you felt.' Kerrey looked at me helplessly but I just stared at the floor. He told the class he couldn't tell them -- he would have to do something he usually does only in the shower -- sing." Then Kerrey in a steady baritone talked/sang And the Band Played "Waltzing Matilda," the mournful lament of a World War I Australian who lost a leg in battle. The lyrics include the gut-wrenching line "Never knew there were worse things than dying." Says Capps: "When he turned and limped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOB KERREY: A Senator Of Candor | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

There was no physical evidence--it happened around 4 a.m. one night, and the first thing I could think to do, stunned as I was, was to shower. For over an hour I showered. It wouldn't have helped not to--I had no bruises, nothing...It was a mess. It was the most painful experience of my life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Voices | 10/26/1990 | See Source »

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