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Over time, most families adjust. After putting her husband "on a pedestal," Laura Root of Sterling, Ill., is looking forward to the shock of gritty reality: "I can't wait to have a fight and get back to normal." Military support services have moved into high gear to alert families to the dangers lurking ahead. Says the Navy's Falk: "We want them to understand that all this is normal...
...mind, the group teaches people to brush and floss after each meal in order to "give mouths plenty of that attention they're missing," says seminar director Charlotte Tausz. She also suggests "ways of engaging in noncaloric pucker responses" like sipping water through a straw or sucking on ginger root and cinnamon sticks...
...might have dismissed The Crimson's March I coverage of the "Mother Courage Peace Tour," featuring Palestinian women who criticized the allies' intervention in Kuwait, as one more far-left Cambridge event. If these courageous mothers want to claim that the Arab-Israeli conflict is the root of all problems in the Middle East, let them. (Just don't mention Iraq...
While Gorbachev's objectives are different from Bush's on many points and incompatible on some, they're not, at root, necessarily directed against the U.S. That is the distinguishing feature of the current, and probably coming, phase of Soviet-American relations. It's also the key difference from the past. Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev all defined Soviet gain in terms of Western, and more specifically American, loss. Gorbachev has shown that while he will go his own way when he feels it necessary, he will also look for areas where he and Bush can move in tandem. Call...
...Sony and Siemens has rendered America irrelevant in a traditional economic sense, along with all national borders. This "global web" (a favorite Reich phrase) means that today "a sports car is financed in Japan, designed in Italy, and assembled in Indiana." Thus it is folly to subsidize or even root for an American company against its Japanese or European competitors, since such national labels are just convenient fictions, like tankers flying the Panamanian flag. What matters to Reich, pure and simple, is high-quality jobs and an American work force prepared to fill them...