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Quiz time. Besides Jane Fonda, what sex symbol of the '60s has become a health emblem of the '80s? Stumped? Try the water bed. Yes, that infamous fixture of hippie pads has been transformed in just two decades into an increasingly popular middle-class therapeutic aid. Kathleen Hetland and her husband Darwin of Osakis, Minn., both 56 and arthritis sufferers, sleep blissfully on a water mattress that their children sent them as a gift. Says she: "I absolutely love it, and I wouldn't know what to do without...
...that lacked air-conditioning, but nothing could wilt his readiness to accept the President's offer. "I've thought about it for at least ten or twelve seconds, and I would be highly honored," was Bork's reply. After an awkward pause Reagan inquired, "Does that mean yes...
...Harsh, yes. But many see such treatment of hazardous AIDS carriers as justified. Explains Stanford Law Professor Thomas Grey: "It's the same as locking up someone who is going around stabbing people." Agrees Dr. David Cohn, a Denver public-health official: "When Patrick Henry said, 'Give me liberty or give me death,' he wasn't talking about AIDS." Still, it is now clear that the more the disease spreads, the more the civil liberties of its victims are likely to suffer. Necessarily, public well-being takes precedence over individual rights, notes Larry Gostin, Harvard professor of health...
...Constitution's excessive symmetry was the Bill of Rights, which did not overturn the basic document but represented a risky extension into the realms of individual freedom that many of the framers thought dangerous. So here was the Enlightenment house with an ell attached, and a riddle: yes, the main structure was perfect, and, yes, it needed continuous work...
Does America need 1,600 different varieties of frozen desserts? The answer to that weighty question is a resounding yes. Responding to an apparently insatiable consumer appetite for exotic frozen concoctions, U.S. food companies are producing a dazzling array of new products, from fruit bars and candy-coated ice cream to soft-frozen yogurt and brownie bars. In the process, the size and diversity of the $1.6 billion frozen-novelty market have grown spectacularly. That category includes all frozen desserts sold in individual portions, which have nearly doubled their sales in the past five years. The industry's burgeoning roster...