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Stop trying to conform. Go back to your roots with the one and only Bazooka Joe. Mints, shmints; cinnaburst, minnamurst. What's weaker than a sudden explosion of mock maturity than the youngster who without warning switches from bubble gum to mint? Really, it's all about the roots. Who was there in elementary school and junior high? Not the Wrigley's twins, not any strangely favored lifesaver, not any "curiously strong" mint. It was, always has been, and always will be good old Joe, with a comic wrap to keep that smile on your face and a familiar flavor...
...have suffered painful and potentially debilitating tears to the anterior cruciate ligament, which can take months to heal. Doctors think it may have something to do with a woman's wider hips, which place a greater strain on the ligaments joining the thigh to the knee. These ligaments are weaker in women to start with...
BARBARA EHRENREICH, who has written dozens of essays for TIME, has a Ph.D. in biology and this week reports on several new books that challenge the assumption that women are the weaker sex. "Feminists have been leery of biology," says Ehrenreich, whose most recent book examines the prehistoric roots of war. Her cover story introduces us to the new feminists--she calls them femaleists--who embrace biology...
...swift and negative. One friend of the victims told the Times "that if he could get close enough to the pope, `I'd cock him straight and sure in the mouth."' One of Mease's own defense lawyers admitted: "Quite frankly, this case was probably one of the weaker clemency cases...There were no real claims of mental illness, no question of guilt. It was a triple murder. He had one argument dealing with post-traumatic stress from Vietnam, but really he had a snowball's chance in hell...
...During his press conference at the United Center, Jordan, sporting a bandaged finger that he hurt while cutting a cigar, says he made up his mind to retire at the end of last season, but kept quiet in order to support the union, which would have had a weaker position if it couldn't shake its premiere moneymaker in Stern's face. In the serious, unemotional, professional manner that characterized his career, Jordan says, "Right now, I don't have the mental challenges I've had in the past." His wife Juanita says he will do more car pooling...