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...apparently release their sexual energies through masturbation, pornography, and sex by phone. The Advocate classifieds list several numbers that offer a seductive voice on the other end of the wire, payment to be made by credit card. "Horny? Call Your Adonis," says one ad. Sales of gay porn have risen, and video cassette recorders have never been so popular. "The party's over," said one New York gay as he was about to attend a memorial service for yet another casualty. "You just stop having sex. I now make love...
...from the status quo. The other sticking point came over pensions. Traditionally the owners have given one-third of national television and radio revenue to the players' pension fund. With a new TV contract worth $1.1 billion over six years, the players' share under the old formula would have risen from $15 million a year to $60 million. The owners instead offered $25 million; the players demanded at least $40 million...
Guidelines on girth have been the subject of a growing dispute since 1983, when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. updated its charts on desirable weight. The poundage associated with the lowest death rates, the insurance firm found, had risen by as much as 14 Ibs. over such weights in its 1959 tables. Now Dr. Reubin Andres, clinical director of the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute on Aging, has added more fat to the fire. Using the same data (from 4.2 million people charted by 25 insurance companies over two decades), Andres has concluded that people in their...
...biotech companies' new emphasis on marketing has revived Wall Street's enthusiasm for their stocks. Genentech has risen from 34 to 49 since January, while Cetus has gone from less than 9 to nearly 16. Says Peter Drake, a biotechnology expert at the Kidder Peabody investment firm: "From an investor's standpoint, the industry is at a breakout point...
...house, Sheed & Ward. But to their son they were powerfully eccentric individuals who happened to be linked by marriage. Frank was first and last "the man at the piano," demonstrating his photographic memory for the music and lyrics of any song he had heard more than once. He had risen, noisily, from the Australian working class. Maisie, eight years Frank's senior, proceeded from a long line of English-gentry Catholics for whom being Catholic constituted a full-time career. Even so, she relished slapstick, and "the hint of disarray in a dress-for-dinner world sent her into howls...