The Saturday Evening Post articles from January 1998

The Saturday Evening Post archives from January 1998

Fabulous fruits.(includes recipes and nutritional information on unusual fruits)
January 1, 1998... Fruit. How sweet it is, but also how nutritious. Fruits are high on the list of foods we should be eating more of. At least two to four servings of fruit a day, according to the USDA, along with plenty of vegetables can help us stay healthy....

Esther Williams: still in the swim. (film star)
January 1, 1998... A lifelong love of water brought America's bathing beauty fame, fitness, and enduring "grace." Esther Williams didn't plan on swimming into history as America's most memorable mermaid. Blame it on Hitler. The pretty high-school athlete had...

Tee for two.(short story)
January 1, 1998... Atilla the Hun might have broken off his engagement to the formidable Agnes Flack, but only on one of his better mornings. Devout expression had come into the face of the young man in plus fours, who sat with the Oldest Member on the terrace...

A car of her very own.(car renovation humor)
January 1, 1998... Giving Dear Wife the old clunker to knock around in seemed a brilliant idea, but even the best of ideas can backfire. Before going further (and perhaps I shouldn't have waited this long), I want to announce right here in the public domain...

Help save babies from AIDS.(need for mandatory screening of newborn infants for HIV in all states)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1998... We screen newborns for many less common and less deadly diseases than AIDS. Every state legislature should require HIV screening of all newborns immediately. A mother's womb is supposed to be a place of safety for her developing baby. And...

AIDS revisited: preventing the virus' spread.(Saturday Evening Post Society's AIDS Mobile testing program to prevent the spread of AIDS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1998... Two decades ago, we carved out our niche in journalism by transforming The Saturday Evening Post Society into a health and fitness organization. We wanted to make the Post an interactive publication by surveying our readers and funneling their...

Netty Mayersohn and her Baby AIDS bill.(New York State assemblywoman)(includes related inforamtion on results of newborn screening tests)(Interview)
January 1, 1998... "My award came the day the Baby AIDS bill was passed. That was a very exciting time in my life." "It was the Tuskegee experiment all over again," says Nettie Mayersohn. The veteran New York assembly-woman was appalled when she discovered...

Dr. Tom Coburn's bill would bring back public health measures.(includes related information on Coburn's HIV Prevention Act and on the Wisconsin AIDS bill)(Interview)
January 1, 1998... Using proven public health policies to prevent the spread of AIDS is a caring approach that saves lives, including the lives of newborns. At last we are headed toward treating the HIV virus like any other sexually transmitted disease. After...

A century of Hope.(comedian Bob Hope)(part 1)
January 1, 1998... Famous Post celebrity writer Pete Martin went to interview Bob Hope in 1954. The result was "This Is On Me," the fascinating story of Hope's rise to stardom as told in his own words. "Where there's life, there's hope" has been an acceptable...