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Playwright Wendy Wasserstein recalls the clamor raised against her 1989 Pulitzer-prizewinning play, The Heidi Chronicles, because it concerns a woman who decides to have a baby alone. One female critic returned more than once to trash the play. "She said this was a cop-out, my saying women could be happy having a baby alone," the playwright says. Last year Wasserstein, still single at 49, gave birth to a daughter, Lucy Jane, conceived with the sperm of a friend she won't identify. "If I put Heidi out now, people would just say, 'Yeah, that's true,'" she says...
...second Mercedes, illegally parked near Tiger Tiger, to the pound early yesterday morning. The cars will provide ample forensic evidence but for now the facts of the case remain enveloped in a smog of speculation and confusion. Early reports that the driver had crashed the first car into a trash can outside Tiger Tiger, then abandoned the vehicle, have still not been confirmed by officials, but a manhunt is underway to find the drivers of both vehicles. A clear image of the man who ran from the first car is said to have been captured on CCTV. The plotters' affiliations...
...warm Friday afternoon in June, about 50,000 boxes of toothpaste got their last squeeze inside an industrial trash compactor in Homestead, Fla. They were yanked from the shelves of discount stores and bathroom cabinets after a nationwide recall warned that the toothpaste contained a chemical, diethylene glycol, that could lead to kidney failure. Francisco Botta, who distributed the toothpaste for his family's wholesale business in Miami, stocked his warehouse bathroom with the stuff. "I used it every day," he says. "I told everybody to stop...
...blame their peers. "People just hang out there and do dumb stuff, and we have to pay for it," says Jordan Keinert, 17, of Mayfair's new policy. Interim measures such as issuing trespass warnings and beefing up police presence are often not enough to rein in throngs of trash-talking teens. "They'd still be all over the place no matter how many you threw out," says Bob Harrington, head of corporate security for Pyramid Management Group, which oversees 20 malls in New York and Massachusetts. And since too many cops chasing too many kids does not a pleasant...
...destroyed. Insurgents entered the building in the time the police were gone, rigged the structure with explosives and demolished it. Now the only police presence in Samarra away from the American base is a small outpost in the city center called Uvanni, an old school building strewn with trash and junked vehicles. Ferris and some of his men visited the police station Sunday and organized a joint patrol, which he felt went well. Still, Ferris doubts Thabit's ability to turn things around in Samarra as soon as he hopes...