Yankee Ingenuity
For many New England fans, the family-run Yankee Magazine was a long-revered icon, a quirky homespun testament to traditions of independence, thrift, potluck practicality and common sense. Besides finding features, poetry and fiction about the region's history and...
Bigger is Better? The Controversial Surgery for Him
Men have always worried more about measuring up. Now, the more meagerly endowed can pay to get what nature failed to provide. The best penis I ever had was not big. It was, however, attached to someone I loved. But the man I loved was not attached to his penis,...
Emergency Contraception: Your OB/GYN’s Best-Kept Secret
His condom tore...your diaphragm slipped? No need to panic - there are safe, effective ways to prevent pregnancy after sex. I'd always seen myself as a responsible woman, the kind who didn't fall unconsciously into bed with a man, the type who'd never dream of not...
Not Everyone Can Be Big-Busted
Shall We Get On With Our Lives? The first exposure I had to small breasts was long before I saw my own and they looked perfectly fine to me--full of my mother's milk, just the way they were supposed to be. It wasn't until I was older - about 12 - which I became aware...
Thigh Anxiety: It’s an obsession.
Think we're overstating the case? Well, in 1994 sales of 'reducing creams' could top $90 million. Behind the calm exterior of millions of seemingly sane American women lurks a raging obsession so severe it clouds all common sense. It's called "thigh anxiety"--that...
The Penis Page: Facts and Phalluses of America’s Favorite Organ
Some warnings about penis enlargement surgery The first penis I'd seen all year was on a table in Culver City, California. It looked like a perfectly good specimen to me, all nice and pink with no apparent diseases. But this penis wasn't exposed in all its splendor...
Body Makeover: One Step at a Time
When the scale hit 182, Nicole Frank hit the pavement. Nicole FrankAGE: 32HEIGHT: 5' 4 1/2"WEIGHT: 122LBS LOST: 60 Nicole Frank didn't trade her ever-fluctuating body size for a stable size 6 by starving herself or working out at gyms. The 32-year-old Pennsylvania...
Body Watch: Double the Weight Loss
Twins Susan and Karen Geib battled overeating until, at 24, they ditched the junk food, hit the local track, and collectively dropped 90 pounds. Karin GeibAGE: 28HEIGHT: 5' 6"WEIGHT: 148LBS LOST: 40 Susan GeibAGE: 28HEIGHT: 5'6"WEIGHT: 161LBS LOST: 50 About four years...
Altered States
Wonder drug or kill-pill? The controversy over Prozac rages on. Clint Powell didn't used to think he felt much different from other people. Sure, he worked night and day at his Costa Mesa antique shop, had arguments with his wife and sometimes suffered dark moods....
The Penis King
Dr. Melvyn Rosenstein is making it big - and saving men face in the locker room - with penis enlargement surgery Move over, ladies. Today it's men - from mechanics to movie stars - who are having their hair replaced, their faces lifted, their tummies tucked, their...
Love Sleuthing
There's more than one way to find out if your Prince Charming is a conniving cad. Been burned by lying Romeos? Want to know what you're getting into before you invest any time or emotion into a new romance? You could join hundreds of Orange County women - and a few...
When There’s a Will
Smart estate planning guarantees your assets will be handled according to your wishes, even when you're not around. But in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.--Benjamin Franklin. A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his...
Orange County Metropolitan
Chapter One
It's Monday evening in an elegant home perched high in the hills of Laguna Beach. Twenty-five men and women sit around a massive wood table, their attention focused on a gesticulating grey-haired man who sits at the table's head. The listeners, five of whom traveled...
Breast Cancer
Three women and their will to live Hope springs eternal in the human breast...--Pope And the rose like a nymph to the bath addressed,Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,Til, fold after fold, to the fainting airThe soul of her beauty and love lay...
The Look of Love
Video dating services are bursting at the seams Worried about not getting any candy hearts this Valentine's Day? Tired of depending on chance encounters for romance? Burned out on personal ads? Don't believe in matchmakers? Given up on love? If you can't get the...
The Dating Game
WANTED: Cute, positive, energetic, wash-n-wear, humble, Christian gal. WANTED: Leading man for close encounter on dance floor. Until recently, advertising for members of the opposite sex was considered a fringe activity, conducted in secret, involving post office...
Fire Power
Deep in the mountains...Orange County professionals shoot guns. Standing in the dirt front yard of a plywood house, Frank Barilla aims his shotgun and fires at three assailants. He runs to the corner of the house, reloads and blasts two more bad guys who lurk in the...
Second Step
"He told me to clean and if I didn't do it in his time frame, I'd get beat.""I had a dish broken over my head because his eggs were too runny.""He tied down my hand, stabbed it with a knife and told me he was gonna take my kids away from me because I was such a slob."...
Seizing the Day
Snapshot of a day in the election-year life of Howard Adler Orange County Democratic Party chief It's 9 a.m. Howard Adler, already three hours into his work day, sits at the table of his office's conference room. Three black and white Ansel Adams prints - peaceful...