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Brown will tackle issues of global warming, toxic waste and the deterioration of our natural resources. These are issues that are easy to put aside for another day. Jerry Brown will ensure that does not happen...
Digging further, Faludi found that the rash of "toxic day-care" stories, which instilled guilt among working women by recounting the epidemic of abuse in day-care centers, masked the fact that the vast majority of child abuse goes on in the home. She also found fault with the stories about women with Harvard M.B.A.s dropping out to go home and raise their children, the Good Housekeeping ads of the New Traditionalist, the notion of the Mommy Track; to her, they all implied that the postfeminist woman was the one who had sampled having it all and preferred to give...
...does a beautiful woman carry a gun in FINAL ANALYSIS? Because "there are a lot of lunatics out there!" At least three of them are at large in this steamy Hitchcock knockoff -- mostly from Vertigo. A psychiatrist (Richard Gere, with his famous hair and casual sexual authority) blunders into toxic relationships with two wily sisters (Kim Basinger and Uma Thurman). Soon, despite her married bondage to creepy contractor Eric Roberts, Basinger takes Gere to bed. Their mandatory sex scene is shot in tiger stripes of light and shadow, as if it were an R-rated outtake from the Nature series...
Fortunately, cancer treatments are constantly being improved. Radiation doses can often be more carefully targeted than in the past, and researchers are finding both new, less toxic anticancer drugs and ways to use the old medicines more judiciously. The refinements in therapy should result in fewer long-term side effects...
...dangers. Leistner was the last mayor of Times Beach, Mo., the town of 2,400 that the U.S. government evacuated and closed down in 1982 because it was contaminated with dioxin, considered by many to be one of the most fearsome of chemicals. The mayor saw dioxin's toxic effects all too clearly: the elderly forced out of their homes and into retirement centers, people so paranoid that every common illness was assumed to be dioxin poisoning, neighbors quarreling and even threatening to kill one another. "This chemical uprooted 801 families," she says. "The frustration, the divorces, the stress...