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...Indeed, the 20 new series making their bow this fall add up to a veritable pride of prejudices. CBS's "Bridget Loves Bernie" concerns a well-heeled Catholic girl who falls for a poor Jewish cab driver. In last week's episode they got married and promptly gave birth to dozens of Jewish-Catholic in-law gags. "M*A*S*H," also on CBS, is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of the grim-zany 1970 movie about an Army medical unit in the Korean War. It mixes sex, surgery and insubordination until they are almost indistinguishable (Surgeon to nurse leaning over...
...staff. At times he flatly refuses to perform a script that does not conform to his conception of the role. An example was last season's episode about Archie's being trapped in a stalled elevator with a middle-class black and a Puerto Rican girl about to give birth to a baby. It was used only after Lear overrode O'Connor's objections that it "wouldn't work." (Such difficulties with O'Connor made the renegotiation of his contract last fall "a bloodbath," according to one Tandem source...
That event--the literal birth of time and space some 15 billion years ago--has been understood, at least in its broadest outlines, since the 1960s. But in more than a third of a century, the best minds in astronomy have failed to solve the mystery of what happens at the other end of time. Will the galaxies continue to fly apart forever, their glow fading until the cosmos is cold and dark? Or will the expansion slow to a halt, reverse direction and send the stars crashing back together in a final, apocalyptic Big Crunch? Despite decades of observations...
What the new fem foods have in common is that they all trumpet nutrients that benefit women in particular, from the tried and true, such as calcium for preventing osteoporosis and folic acid for staving off birth defects, to sexy newcomers like soy, which is popularly believed to fight breast cancer and relieve the symptoms of menopause, though this is still unproved...
...This could have been building up for a long time. You'd think a woman who'd had post-partum depression would be watched after she'd given birth. But that's not the focus in the medical community these days. Instead they're interested in prescribing pills...