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...fast-growing Atlanta-based restaurant chain, waitresses call themselves ''Hooters Girls,'' wear revealing skintight outfits, and appear on trading cards that trumpet their measurements. Says Scott Allmendinger, editor of Restaurant Business: ''There's a mainstream of the American public that's just tired of being politically correct.'' And another stream that is still capable of getting teed off. ''Hooters is part of a collective backlash against the progress that women have made,'' charges Kim Gandy, executive vice president of the National Organization for Women. To be sure, the p.c. forces are not conceding any ground yet, as Goldberg and Danson...
...University administrators may offer resistance too. The majority of campus bookstores, which are usually very profitable, are owned by schools themselves. "Why would a school president want to give up that nice little revenue stream?" Koch asks. But colleges may soon have little choice; at least 34 states have proposed or passed legislation to control textbook costs, and in February, the House passed a similar measure, which is now awaiting Senate approval...
Wayne claims his rhymes are stream of consciousness, but even if they aren't, they sound as though they're hitting the air for the first time, unfolding with an electricity that's--forbid the sacrilege--Dylanesque. Redd Foxx would probably...
Strong stuff, especially when it's funny. Sometimes unsettling too. But the man who said those things came from America's heart. Mark Twain, who was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, grew up on the nation's literal main stream, the Mississippi River, in Hannibal, Mo. Having failed to find a ship that would take him to South America and the fortune he proposed to make from coca, by the age of 23 he had become a Mississippi-steamboat pilot. It was a job he held just briefly, but the memory of the river, its enchantments and dangers, found...
...polluted waterway in North America--a foamy, green mix of industrial waste, farm runoff and untreated human sewage. This river has been found to carry the germs of tuberculosis, encephalitis, polio, cholera, hepatitis and typhoid. We'd heard stories about people entering the U.S. by floating along this nightmare stream with white plastic bags on their heads to blend into the hideous foam. A CBP agent in a Jeep sat overlooking the spot. We asked him, Does that really happen...