Word: harshness
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...laundry this week, it's time for the rest of us to focus on a different kind of sex scandal. I'm talking about the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases--everything from genital herpes to HIV to human papillomavirus--that is ravaging the U.S. and has taken a particularly harsh toll on teenagers. Things have got so bad that researchers from Johns Hopkins University last week called for routine screening every six months of all sexually active teenage girls for infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, a germ that can inflict permanent infertility. First isolated from the genital tract in 1959, chlamydia...
Whitney's devoted writers and editors worry about the kind of internal culture that Fuller, who has a reputation as a prima donna and a harsh manager, will create. "Under Whitney," says an editor, "there are no tears, no screaming fits, no fabulous darlings." To her credit, Fuller is known to be very loyal to favored staff members. Catherine Romano, who worked as an editor under Fuller at YM, MC and Cosmo, explains that while Fuller can be "tough and demanding," she finds talent in people "and lets them max out on their ability...
...first two albums tended to be clever, surface ones. This CD, recorded live, is a breakthrough, thanks in no small part to the fact that his trio (with bassist Ugonna Okegwo and drummer Leon Parker) has been playing together for more than six years--a rarity in the harsh economic climate of today's jazz world. On a set of standards sprinkled with Terrasson originals, the trio plays softly and sparely, at times swinging as much by implication as by force. Melodies have a way of slithering unexpectedly out of laid-back, nearly ambient grooves, heard...
...helping hand is hiding a club. If the right could challenge the growing belief that gayness is innate and not a life-style choice, it could galvanize the troops for the fall elections, all the while looking Christian. At this very moment, House conservatives may try to pass a harsh amendment reversing the federal ban on discrimination against gays...
...that approval would depend on the airlines' shedding up to 267 takeoff and landing slots a week in London, and reducing the frequency of flights from London to Chicago, Dallas and Miami if their competitors demand it. And with Virgin's Richard Branson charging that the EU wasn't harsh enough, the pressure on British-American isn't likely to let up. "There's no certainty that this deal will finally be consummated," says TIME reporter Bernard Baumohl. "The extent of the sacrifice demanded by the EU regulators makes the venture a lot less lucrative for the two airlines than...