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What may make Loveline a particularly compelling alternative to, say, daytime TV's Jerry Springer, is its underlying "mission." Pinsky is obsessed with changing what he views as a culture of "broken-down interpersonal relationships" that lack intimacy. He calls the show a "sheep in wolf's clothing" that discourages sexual activity and encourages responsibility and connection in a hip, relatable context. Of particular concern to him is the rest of the media, which often portray sex as a simple physical act with no emotional consequences. Is he troubled about young teens having sex? Pinsky says a significant percentage...
...launched a thousand premature hopes, but there's no doubt in the minds of cancer researchers today that a new era is dawning in the treatment of the U.S.'s No. 2 killer. Three decades ago, the Federal Government's "War on Cancer" underwrote basic discoveries about the ways broken-down genes lead to malignancies. Now that work is beginning to pay off. "The black box that was the cancer cell has been opened," says Dr. Bert Vogelstein, a world-renowned investigator of cancer genes at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. "As researchers, we feel a tremendous amount...
...stealing gasoline credit cards, a charge that was later dropped. Applewhite then spent months shuttling from state to state in a confusing legal tangle over a car. During this period, he wrote his first spiritual manifesto. Applewhite and Nettles also had a brush with a comet. Stranded with a broken-down car in St. Louis, Missouri, they comforted themselves with the thought that "God would provide the means," and on the same night comet Kohoutek appeared...
...wasn't until I was assigned to Englewood that I saw how much social conditions contribute to the rise of crime," he says, describing the damaged streetlights, broken-down cars and multitude of abandoned properties that dot Englewood today...
...hear daily of the trials of the middle-aged. They write to us of downsizing owes, of ailing parents and of swelling prostrates. Even the more marginal among the 40-somethings, the artists and the gays, write about their problems. They tell us of desiccated circles of friends and broken-down coteries. These memories, for all theeir variety, tend to linger on families of one sort or another...