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...remember how I presented my "objective" opinion about why a newspaper could justly print the names of gay men arrested for having anonymous sex in a public bathroom. It opened the men to heinous discrimination. It ran contrary to my sense of justice. But I justified it because it sounded like "good journalism...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Sometimes You've Just Gotta Take a Stand | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

...illness, he was a vigorous and dapper widower, a catch for the golden girls of West Palm Beach, Fla. He spent part of his winters there. The rest of the year he lived in a modest Elizabeth, N.J., apartment where he washed his own socks and underwear in the bathroom sink rather than use the coin-operated laundry in the basement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Source: PATRIMONY by Philip Roth | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

...sacking of Kuwait took place under an unwritten "looting hierarchy." The new Iraqi Governor of Kuwait got first crack at the treasures stored in royal palaces, while commanders looted the residences of businessmen. Support units were allowed only into ordinary homes, which they stripped of VCRs, refrigerators and bathroom fixtures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Footnotes From the Front: An up-to-the-minute briefing on the Persian Gulf crisis | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...violates all codified premed mores. They fiendishly slice out copies of past years' final exams from library bound volumes, using scalpels smuggled from their labs. They magnetize videotapes of past lectures. These future physicians have even been known to pour acid on classmates' notes when they go to the bathroom...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Tracking the Indigenous Premed | 1/7/1991 | See Source »

Street Beat workers travel around in a minivan and a 31-ft.-long recreational vehicle, a wheeled medical-office-cum-rest-area equipped with an examination room, bathroom, shower and kitchen. The unit handles everything from minor scrapes and pregnancy screening to gunshot wounds. Forty-five percent of those tested for the AIDS virus are positive. "These kids operate outside the law and the health-care and social systems to such a degree that when they get on this van, they have no ID, no address, no nothing," says Ellen Flynn, 44, Street Beat's nurse practitioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City A Beacon On Lonely Street | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

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