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...Republican sex symbol. When the four-term Indiana Senator strode into a cocktail party at the National Federation of Republican Women conference wearing a broad smile and a blue suit, a hundred ladies were all atwitter. A Colorado woman in sequined denim sighed, "He's such a sweetheart!" A gray-haired matron from Florida had a twinkle in her bifocals: "He's even better-looking in person than he is on TV!" A lady with a WOMEN FOR GRAMM button elbowed a woman in elephant earrings to get next...
...historic gold-rush country of Northern California, Lovetta Pyle has struck a vein of woe. Shortly after moving to the town of Sutter Creek, she learned that the gray "sand" that whole neighborhoods sit on is actually mine tailings, the grit left over after gold has been extracted from the ground. In those tailings is a toxic byproduct of the mining process: arsenic, in concentrations up to 50 times higher than the level deemed safe by the government. Now Pyle finds that her house is virtually worthless; no one will buy it, and no bank will write a mortgage...
...half an hour of discussion, Milosevic startled Holbrooke again by telling him that the two key Bosnian Serb leaders, Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, were standing by in Belgrade. With Holbrooke's approval, Milosevic summoned them, and they strode in--Mladic in his combat fatigues, Karadzic with his gray tresses waving. For the next eight hours the Bosnian Serbs and Holbrooke's staff worked on the language of the agreement Milosevic had proposed. Part of the time Holbrooke and Milosevic were out of the room for private talks and a dinner of roast lamb and red wine...
Trusting someone to do what's right can be hazardous. But doctors have traditionally been given a lot of latitude when it comes to deciding what drugs to prescribe, and in the gray area of off-label medicine, the benefits of letting them continue to use their best judgment is probably worth the risk...
...women ("girls," in pageant parlance) grow savvier with each local contest. Many wear Firm Grip, a sports adhesive, to keep their swimsuits from riding up. Miss Vermont eats bananas to steady her nerves. Rebecca Gray, Miss Indiana, confides, "I have really fine hair, so I fill in my hairline with dark eye shadow." Even these beauty tips can't help them compete forever. There is an age limit, a kind of Menudo Line, of 25 for contestants. Elizabeth McIntyre, Miss West Virginia, is 24, and when she won her state title, she says, she felt "relieved. I was aging...