Sightings
FactCheck Examines a Politician's Statements About Abortion and Birthrates
Santorum appeared on a New Hampshire radio talk show, blaming abortions for "causing Social Security and Medicare to be underfunded." But he not only misstated the abortion statistic, he also got it wrong when he said that "our birthrate is now below replacement rate for the first time in our history." more »
Who's That Girl? Georges Dambier: Fashioning the Fifties
For we women who remember the fashion of the fifties with fondness and nostalgia, George Dambier's photographs on exhibit at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York City recall not only the style but the beauty of the models of that time. more »
States Advance Abortion Legislation and An Analysis of the Politics At Work
"A second Kansas bill to require consent of both parents for minors to get an abortion and to require doctors to provide the state with more detailed records for abortions also is headed to the governor" more »
Engineering and Couture: Fashioning Apollo
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the moon July, 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: twenty-one layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses, whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles more »