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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time in a cocaine stupor. His live-in companion Hedda Nussbaum, 46, was a former children's book editor with a boxer's dented profile, the result of years of beatings by Steinberg. And while only Steinberg stood trial for Lisa's death, a shadow of complicity fell upon everyone who did not act to prevent it: Nussbaum, the girl's neighbors and teachers, and the child-welfare system...
...decision on whether to convict Steinberg of murder or manslaughter hinged upon fine distinctions of intent and responsibility. The murder charge would have required the jury to find Steinberg guilty of "depraved indifference to human life." There certainly seemed to be evidence of that. After being pounded into unconsciousness, Lisa was left lying on a bathroom floor in the couple's Greenwich Village apartment for some twelve hours when Steinberg went out to dinner. Nussbaum testified that after his return, when she told him the girl could not be revived, he insisted they free-base cocaine before calling for help...
With the baby-boom generation growing older, said the bureau, the number of women in their prime childbearing age has already begun to decline. But a smaller work force does not necessarily mean economic stagnation. "These changes don't come upon us overnight," says Thomas Espenshade, a population expert at Princeton University. "We should be able to accommodate them...
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Strange people and situations pile into a Madrid penthouse until the place looks like the stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Carmen Maura is the put-upon heroine in this glossy farce by Spain's naughty new auteur Pedro Almodovar...
...water jet, then dries with a blast of warm air. For added comfort, the seat is heated. It even has a safety device: to prevent the mechanically inquisitive from being sprayed in the face, the water nozzle will not work until a sensor registers the presence of a seat upon the seat. The fruit of a two-year survey of the Japanese anatomy -- in search of the perfect angle for the water nozzle -- the Washlet is being aggressively marketed by its manufacturer, TOTO, Japan's largest maker of toilets. Promise the ads: "Your bottom will like it after three tries...