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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Delving deeper with experts into the mysteries of sleep, reporter-researcher Janice Horowitz became self-conscious about what is usually a natural act. "The minute my head hit the pillow, I began wondering about which stage of sleep I was approaching," she says. "I was actually watching myself trying to doze off." Joan Menschenfreund, who coordinated the story's photography, tries to cure occasional sleeplessness by watching TV. She's careful to pick soporific fare: "I sometimes get so involved in the program that I'm more wide awake than ever." And some think that if they absolutely, positively...
From her exile, the scorned theologian then produced a sweeping indictment of clerical attitudes toward sex that soared to the top of the 1989 nonfiction best-seller list in Germany. Last week Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven (Doubleday; $21.95) hit U.S. bookstores amid a squall of controversy. In a nutshell, the author contends that Catholicism "strives to impose its own moral dictatorship without regard to the welfare of married people, a dictatorship based on pleasure-hating, celibate contempt for marriage and a maniacal cult of virginity...
...work; they buy drugs; they sleep; they are like robots," says Mary, 31, a cherub-faced woman who walks the streets in order to support her own and her mother's crack habit. Most work for very little money. "Sometimes they go for a trick for $2 for a hit of crack because they are hurting," says Daniel Zayas, 32, Street Beat field supervisor. And then there are the constant dangers. So far 17 of Street Beat's clients have been killed by psychotics or gangs or in ritual murders. "They take murder for granted," says Zayas. "It is part...
...Leonard Garment, who served as Richard Nixon's chief counsel throughout Watergate and advised Robert McFarlane during the Iran-contra fallout. Charles Ruff and Jim Hamilton, who are defending Senators John Glenn and Dennis DeConcini, respectively, served in the Watergate special prosecutor's office. Two lawyers besides Garment have hit the scandal triple crown. Senator Don Riegle is advised by Tom Green, who represented retired Major General Richard Secord after Iran-contra and White House aide Robert Mardian during Watergate. Lawyer Plato Cacheris, who worked for both Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell and Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall...
...previous INXS album sold 9 million copies worldwide. The band's eighth and latest album, X, was released by Atlantic in September and promptly shot to the chart tops, where it has settled into the No. 19 position. The band is touring Europe at the moment, and will hit the U.S., where it is a campus favorite, in January...