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Dermatologist Paul Lazar of Northwestern University Medical School found that women use 17 to 21 grooming products every morning...
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: Center for the American Woman and Politics, Rutgers University (1988 voting statistics); Rodale Press; Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.; Hallmark Cards Inc.; The Gallup Organization Inc.; Cosmopolitan/Battelle (I Do, for Now); Wider Opportunities for Women; Americans' Use of Time Project; Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press; Centers for Disease Control...
...years, says the Family Research Council in Washington. This is not good news. Researchers have uncovered ominous links between absentee parents and behavioral problems among children. A 1989 survey of 5,000 eighth-grade students in Southern California found, for instance, that latchkey children were twice as likely to use alcohol and drugs as were children supervised by adults after school...
...addressed primarily to women. Bombeck's conclusion: "That means they are doing laundry. They understand that washing machines eat socks." In the '90s these changes are amplified on the nightclub circuit, where 20% of the comics are female, up from perhaps 2% a decade ago. Even that minuscule group used to give itself the short end of the shtick: "When I was born I was so ugly, the doctor slapped my mother." In comedy's Paleolithic era, notes Budd Friedman, impresario of Los Angeles' Improv comedy club, "stand-up was traditionally a white male enclave. But today there...
...reason for this explosive increase can be put in a single word: drugs. As city, state and federal governments have cracked down on the sale and use of narcotics, ever growing numbers of women have been caught in the dragnet. About 60% of all women in federal prisons have been convicted of drug-related offenses, but that tells only part of the story. Many other crimes -- theft, prostitution, armed robbery -- are also drug related. At the Rose M. Singer jail for women on New York City's Rikers Island, warden Robert Brennan estimates that drugs underlie the incarceration...