Word: john
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ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS: Karsten Prager (International), John F. Stacks (Chief of Correspondents...
Finally, there is profound confusion over what it means to be a man today. Men have faced warping changes in role models since the women's movement drove the strong, stoic John Wayne-type into the sunset. Replacing him was a new hero: the hollow-chested, sensitive, New Age man who bawls at Kodak commercials and handles a diaper the way Magic Johnson does a basketball. Enter Alan Alda...
...relevance to such thorny modern dilemmas as how to balance work and family or how to talk to women? Perhaps. Men have to feel comfortable with themselves before they can successfully confront such issues. This grounding is also critical for riding out the changes in pop culture and ideals. John Wayne and Alan Alda, like violence and passivity, reflect holes in a core that needs fixing. But men can get grounded in many ways, and male retreats provide just one stylized option, though not one necessarily destined to attract most American...
...family reasons. Both companies have jettisoned the rigid "get up or get out" corporate formula that held that managers, like sharks, must constantly move forward or sink. After all, many executives these days are women with small children or women whose husbands are pursuing ambitious careers of their own. John Zimmerman, an MCI senior vice president, cites the case of the corporate-development executive, a mother, who has turned down two promotions in the past year because she did not want to move. At Gannett, a woman declined a promotion to publisher because she was busy adopting a child...
Women's hearts also differ markedly from men's. Not only does cardiovascular disease strike women later in life, but blood cholesterol levels seem to play a somewhat different role in female patients. Dr. John Crouse, a lipids researcher at Bowman Gray School of Medicine in North Carolina, notes that women seem to be less vulnerable than men to high levels of LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol, and more vulnerable to low levels of HDL, the "good" cholesterol. Diets that reduce both levels, such as the one promoted by the American Heart Association, may actually harm women, Crouse argues...