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Menopause is not exactly terra incognita. Edith Bunker dithered through a few hot flashes on All in the Family. Kathy Bates' mood-swinging character in Fried Green Tomatoes tore down walls and built them back up again while Jessica Tandy exhorted her to "take those hormones!" and get on with her life...
...tone and format were altogether different in the Tuesday-night debate among running mates: a single moderator posed questions and let the candidates talk directly to one another. Vice President Dan Quayle and Clinton's No. 2, Al Gore, tore into each other with a zest that frequently left Perot's running mate, retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale, a tongue-tied bystander. Quayle was a far cry from the vacuous dolt so often portrayed. He mounted a sharply focused, though overly glib and often shrill, attack, repeatedly taunting Gore about "pulling a Clinton" -- that is, waffling. Gore, though...
...tenure offer from Harvard's English Department a few years ago tore Buell away from his Ohio home...
...least some of the bacteria, then stirring in the Unimix with wooden poles. One cook estimates that it will take 80 vats to feed everyone here this day. At least, he says, there is enough food. Two weeks before, inadequate supplies stirred the crowd into a frenzy. Mothers tore pots from starving children to feed their own. "It was terrible," recalls Dr. Ayub Sheik Yeron, the UNICEF representative who set up this feeding center last month. "When people have not eaten for three or four days, they lose control...
...second time since Andrew tore off into the Gulf of Mexico, George Bush and his entourage descended into the heat and bustle of South Florida, anxious to show their concern and capacity to make things right again. Bush promised to rebuild the gutted Homestead Air Force Base, which pumped about $400 million into the local farm-based economy, though logic suggested it should be closed. Bush also agreed to waive the normal 75-25 federal-local split on disaster costs; Washington will pick up the full...