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GIVE PEACE A CHANCE I was working late in the raku studio at Syracuse

University, up to my elbows in sticky Mother Earth, when the announcements about SCUD missiles and "not another

ASK CECIL The column ("Straight Dope," Seven Days, December 27, 1995) caught my eye with its paragraphs on chocolate, then on to lint in dryers, and then I found myself reading those totally repulsive questions and answers. Where were your editors? Is this how you speak to the culture of Burlington? Humor? Grotesque. — Eleanor A. Jacobson

Vietnam" startd coming out of

South Burlington

the clay-encrusted radio. After reading Stanley Karnow a few

THE POT A N D THE KETTLE

years earlier, my feeling about

The irony of Representative Dean Corren sponsoring the resolution to pursue impeachment proceedings against Judge Althea Kroger is noteworthy.

military operations (do we say "war" anymore?) had gone from active resistance to downright disgust.

For someone who "committed perjury"

With this sentiment in mind, MMN^gjj^

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I actively avoided the television

and who received thousands of undeserved tax

set; I knew full well that the

dollars as a result of this perjury, to question

media was going to engineer the

another individual while refusing to admit his

show, produced by the military,

own guilt would be laughable if it weren't so

with the financial backing of you

serious.

and me, and the true horrors of wartime would be glazed over,

continually on his legislative expense vouchers,

I would hope that our legislative leadership will show the good sense that has been lacking

the entire mess served up like a

up until this point. They should allow

short stack, dripping with

Chittenden County and the State Judicial

Vermont Grade A amber.

Review Board to handle our parochial prob-

Thanks to Tom Paine for dissem-

officials should be focused on the many

the issue of warfare ("From Basra

important statewide problems that they need

to Bethlehem," Seven Days,

to face.

December 20, 1995).

— John Patch

By the way, are we really going to Bosnia

Burlington

to keep the peace and help stop other people's

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up to Central Vermont Hospital and was treated and released. Her neck was painful for School is back in session under Monta few days, but she went right back to work. pelier's golden dome. Vermont's annual stateBouricius, meanwhile, filed an accident sanctioned clash of ideas and ideologies is report and claimed $1000 damage to his Saturn back on center stage. Republicans are battling The distinguished Burlington dance instructor Democrats and Burlington's two Progressives says his front bumper was cracked. Hey, those are battling everyone else. And this year on Volvos are tough. Terry's planning on taking it opening day things started off with a political- to the shop Friday to get an estimate. ly correct bang! The Last Wednesday, one hour before the tri-partisan collision may well serve as a metaphor for the coming weeks and month opening gavel, members of all three political in Montpelier. There'll be plenty more collifactions came together in a clash of bumpers sions under the dome — count on it. just down the street from the Statehouse. Delaney Watch — Republican State Sen. It began when Sen. Jack Barry, the savvy Dennis Delaney made it official Friday: He's longtime broadcaster, applied the brakes on candidate for lieutenant governor. Whoopee! his Chrysler Concorde as he approached the His intersection of Bailey and State Streets just a announcement in the senate chamber was couple blocks from the Statehouse. The snow attended by as many Democrats as was flying that morning and cars had been Republicans — many of them delighted by spinning off the interstate like tops. Naturally, the fact that Delaney won't be back next year. Jack's brakes locked and the car started to That is, unless he wins. Dennis was his usual skate. Fortunately a 1995 Saturn with Rep. sanctimonious self, god bless him. His emiTerrill Bouricius at the wheel was stopped at nence said he was in the race to pick up John the light in front of Jumpin' Jack. Boom! Carroll's "fumble." Problem is, J.C. wants his The Progressive was ball back. able to halt the Democrat's Carroll tells Inside Track progress — a rare feat — this week he'll return to his but Terry, with Rep. Dean post at Banknorth "very Corren as co-pilot, needed soon." He says he's going to an assist from the Volvo pay off his $60,000 debt with wagon stopped at the red personal savings and a second light in front of them. mortgage on his Norwich Fortunately it was home. "Nothing's changed Republican Sen. Susan about my candidacy," insists Sweetser's Volvo wagon. Vermont's future somethingShe was in the passenger or-other. Don't you love priseat. Her husband, David maries? Sands, was at the wheel. A Fond Farewell — Vermont Boom! Expos General manager Tom Sands tells Inside Racine packed 'em in at Track the Volvo was Centennial Field, so it was knocked into the intersecappropriate his fans packed tion. He pulled around the his memorial service at St. corner and parked. In his I ^ P l Paul's Monday afternoon. If rear-view mirror he saw • • ^ ^ Tom was looking down from Bouricius get out, then get I I I ^ ^ the press box, he would have back in his car as if to ^ ^ gotten a chuckle from the drive away. Sands says he reminiscences of a politician, went back and asked him, an umpire and a bartender. "Where you going? You hit "We have lost somebody who has given so much to all "I did?" replied of Bouricius. Sands says Terry told him he'd been us," said Bernie Sanders, hit from behind by Jack Barry. Nobody said who recalled those early days anything about damage — none was visible, after his 10-vote upset victory in the 1981 says Sands — so off he went to deliver his mayoral race. The business community was wife to the Statehouse. ready to call in NATO, except for Tom Jack Barry tells Inside Track the contact Racine. He was the one who went to see was minor. "I wasn't doing 5 mph," he says. Bernie to try and work together for the best "It was just a little tap." Bouricius came back for Burlington. And they did. The rest — to his vehicle and "leaned in the car and said well, the rest is history. he didn't see any damage. I said I didn't have Umpire Bill Small recollected how when any, either." So off they all went on their Tom stopped into his store he would always merry way. take time to talk baseball with him. "All I got Later that day, however, a legislative page to say," said the ump, "is Tom was a great delivered a handwritten note to Sen. Barry. It baseball person." was from Rep. Bouricius. It indicated the And Bob Conlon, daytime bartender at Progressive's Saturn had sustained some damLeunig's, where Tom used to stop for coffee age, but Barry the Democrat says the note and the daily joke-swap, remembered Tom as didn't indicate what the damage was. the kind of a guy who, if a horse walked into The following day Boom Boom Barry the bar, would be the first guy to go over and received a phone call from Johanna Brassard. ask, "Hey, how come the long face?" She informed him she had been in the backTom Racine had the gift of treating other seat of Terry's Saturn and she had suffered folks the way he wanted to be treated. His was whiplash. the kind of friendship that was strongest when Contacted by Inside Track, Brassard says you needed it the most. We'll miss him and she doesn't "feel the accident was anybody's we'll never forget him. Play ball! fault. It was very slippery." Johanna was just Media Notes — If you've noticed over the last car-pooling with The Whatchamacallit few months that Channel 22's late-night Brothers. She was heading to the Vermont anchor, Deborah Nettune, gets all sparkly Center for Independent Living where she was during the intro to meteorologist Mark starting her new job as development and com- Searles' weather report, you're not alone. munity affairs director. Brassard says she went Folks, there's romance on the tube. Last week Lib the pair started sharing the same mailbox. Saves on the heating bills, you know. • ^ J j

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thought guiltily about my home decor, strewn with dirty clothes, dirty dishes, half-read newspapers and books. And my skincare regimen: a bar of soap and a tube of dark purple lipstick. I felt out of place here among these divas of dermatology, these madams of moisturizer. Marie-Lise came to get me

phoot phoot. When I was a teenager, this was a daily ritual, performed under the harsh light of the bathroom mirror: pickin' zits, leaving only reddened skin and a tinge of blood behind. "Don't pick your zits," my mom always said. A whiz of a dermatologist that she sent me to, after taking my $150 check, made this brilliant pronouncement: "You have acne. Don't squeeze your pimples." Well, I wondered, what the hell else was I supposed to do with them? Now that I'm twentysomething, those pustules aren't such a common occurrence. But I still squeeze the little buggers. And now my face has new worries. M U D S E A S O N : You're never too young Wrinkles. Skin for a facial cancer. A need to moisturize. I someand we hopped on the elevator times wander the to the downstairs spa. Suddenly aisles of drugstores after work, reading the labels on ashamed, I fingered the scab jars and pots and tubes of mois- from a newly-picked blackhead and wished my skin were as turizers, toners and cleansers, glowing as hers. After filling out wanting to buy them, but hava questionnaire about my skin ing no idea what to do with care, I entered a darkened them. room, stripped to my undies, Just as I was beginning to and lay on a table next to a experience vertigo from myriad machine with scary words like skin-care choices, I received a "skin iron," vacuum" and, worst gift from my employers: a free of all, "vaporizer" on it. I wonfacial from Stephen and Burns, dered if I were going to be where the air is fragrant and so vaporized, all traces of me oblitis the clientele. erated from the earth for the sin "They're probably trying to of picking at my skin. give you a hint," my grandmother snorted when she heard This did not happen. of the arrangement. To visit Instead, for the next hour and a grandma with my wrinkled half I was treated to some of the clothes, messy hair and no loveliest pampering of my makeup is to be tongue-lashed young life. I got a detoxifying within an inch of my life. This massage, which involves some happens every time I see her. weird machine with little bitty My friends were jealous. glass cups attached to it. It felt "Ooh, tough job, Mag, come like a thousand mini-plumbers back from vacation and get a on speed, plunging my face facial." Yeah, go pop some pimover and over again. The purples, precious thing, I thought pose of this was to activate the to myself. I returned from vacalymph nodes, which apparently tion ready for pampering. contain fluids that are your I entered the Stephen and body's natural cleansers. Burns salon Friday morning I also got a relaxing masand sat to wait for Marie-Lise, sage, exfoliant, moisturizers and the esthetician ( a person seaweed mask. While the mask licensed to care for skin). I was tightening my face, Mariethumbed through a Martha Stewart magazine and watched Continued on page 20 as perfectly coiffed, clearskinned women strode by. I January 10, 1996

FOR PROFIT OR PATIENTS? Vermonters want to know: Will the corporatization of health care cut quality along with costs? By Bryan

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he age of the health maintenance ment of the 1990s," said Alexander J. afford to undercut Blue Cross and in health care is posing a substantial organization has dawned in Shak, senior vice president at Blue CHP's prices, perhaps even driving the threat to our health-care institutions." Vermont, and health care will never Cross. But now his company, the traditwo smaller insurers out of business. Yet Dean himself has been inviting be the same. As government and the pri- tional, nonprofit insurer of last resort, Blue Cross itself raised that specter, sayHMOs to Vermont, saying they can vate sector turn to HMOs for lower-cost faces a threat much greater than compeing Vermont was at risk of losing its curb health insurance costs while health insurance, more and more tition from boutique HMOs like CHP. nonprofit, "community-minded" insurimproving the quality of care. Asked Vermonters will lose wide-open access to ers to large HMOs with no ties to the about his simultaneous warning and their choice of specialists and hospitals. ake AssureCare, Inc. Based in state. welcome, Dean said: "We're not going to In health policy jargon, it's called Manhattan, AssureCare is a new be able to avoid regionalization. The t AssureCare isn't the only large H M O "managed care." It means HMOs will H M O whose major investor, looking to enter Vermont. United question is, can we do it on our terms?" have a greater role in determining Abraham Gosman, is a multimillionaire Health Plans of New England, Inc., a The governor suggested that the whether your daughter gets a CT-scan who struck it rich in the nursing home subsidiary of the largest managed-care Vermont Legislature may have to bolster for those persistent headaches, or business. organization in the country, is also insurance laws, for example, to prevent whether you can see a specialist or chiroAssureCare came to Vermont to be a expressing an interest in the Vermont the kind of predatory pricing that Blue practor for your lower back pain. player in the state's effort to reduce its marketplace. Cross and CHP are worried about. While HMOs are the rage nationStill, many policy makers welcome wide, they are not being welcomed with the new HMOs, saying it is time comopen arms in Vermont. Large for-profit, petition, including the profit motive, out-of-state HMOs are knocking on came to Vermont's health insurance the state's door, only to be greeted with marketplace. the same enthusiasm that awaits Robert Stair, a Health Policy Council Wal-Mart. member with ties to a nonprofit nursing Proponents of the big HMOs say home, said health-care providers of all they offer better health care at lower kinds would have to adapt to new prices. Critics say the giants may value demands to "do more with less." profits over patients. "I'm not sure we can protect...not"What we are seeing around the for-profit anythings,'" said Stair, "if they country, frankly, is the 'Wal-Martizacan't hack it." tion' of health care," said state Senator AssureCare claims the last thing it Cheryl Rivers (D-Windsor), a health intends to do is skimp on health care. care activist and member of the state The new insurer's chief financial officer Health Policy Council. She added that in Vermont, Bob Rivett, pointed to large HMOs find creative ways for other state where for-profit HMOs are "reducing their costs and maximizing successfully carving out huge amounts of their profit at the expense of quality spending in health care without sacrifichealth care for consumers." ing quality. So the state that once promised to Rivett compared AssureCare and lead the nation to a new health care other private HMOs to United Parcel system now finds itself stuck with a Service's delivering packages faster and new policy debate: But is Vermont for less money than the U.S. Postal ready for the large HMOs? Service. Profit won't come from health It's not that the health-care giants care denied, he said; it will come from are foreign to the Green Mountains. "efficiencies, savings and using new and During the past six years Community innovative ways to deliver health care." Health Plan, a non-profit H M O based in Latham, New York, has quickly gained 80,000 Vermont subscribers, ven as they express concern about most of them apparently content with the new HMOs, doctors and hospimanaged care. Smaller HMOs are also tals themselves are beginning to act a gaining market share. lot like them. The pressure to curb Even the state's dominant health growth in health insurance prices is forcinsurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of ing medical professionals everywhere to Vermont, says it cannot survive in the cut their costs and provide more effinew cost-conscious marketplace unless cient, effective medical care. Nowhere is it remakes itself into what amounts to this being pursued more aggressively an HMO. That means Blue Cross' than at the region's two academic med190,000 Vermont customers, who have own health-care costs by moving some And on the very day the Health ical centers: Chittenden County's enjoyed relatively few restrictions on 66,000 Medicaid recipients into HMOs. Policy Council voted on AssureCare, Fletcher Allen Health Care and New their access to health care, can expect It amounts to a kind of privatization of Governor Howard Dean was before the Hampshire's Dartmouth-Hitchcock that to change in the next few years. At the state and federal health insurance Legislature warning that Vermont's tradi- Medical Center. a time when employers and governments program for the poor and disabled. tion of independence and its quality of are unwilling to spend appreciably more In the old health-care system, hospiLike Wal-Mart before it, AssureCare life risked being swallowed up by power- tals and doctors were essentially isolamoney on health care, Blue Cross says it is having a rough time setting up shop. ful outside forces: large utilities, banks can no longer continue offering its traditionists. They collaborated, but their The Health Policy Council, a 26-memand health insurers. tional lines of unrestricted health insurbilling departments, patient records and ber state advisory panel of diverse repre"We are in danger of being homogeance. medical staffs had the weakest of links sentation, deadlocked 10-10 last week nized into a regional economy and losNo more. In the new health-care system, "We cannot ignore or run away from on whether to recommend a license for ing our sense of who we are," Dean told integration reigns. Small hospitals are the fact that the mission this plan was the company. lawmakers. Health care, he added, was forming corporate and medical ties founded on almost 50 years ago is no One of the council's fears was no different. "The enormous pressure to longer viable in the health care environAssureCare's deep pockets â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it can become efficient and bring down costs Continued o

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o a snowboarder, a bowl of virgin powder is the ultimate find. But how to get there? Untouched areas are next to impossible to find just off the side of a road. It takes a little searching, a little hiking. And that isn't too easy in a pair of boots — chances are you'll sink up to your waist. The solution? Tramp off into the wilderness in a pair of snowshoes. Once you've found that perfect spot, you can throw them into a carrier or put 'em on your back, strap on your board and you're set to attack the mountain. Snowshoes were first used more than 6000 years ago, but only recently made the transformation from hunting and trapping gear to popular winter recreational accoutrements. This has been good news for Tubbs Snowshoes, the Stowe manufacturer whose international sales have risen dramatically in the last few years. "Snowshoeing is growing on the fast track," confirms Tubbs marketing director Kathy Murphy,

maintains an "aggressive calendar of events" to invite people to get into the sport. Why the sudden popularity? First of all, anyone who can walk can snowshoe; it's accessible to people of all ages and fitness levels. It's social; families and friends can do it together at the same pace. While an excellent form of exercise, snowshoeing isn't usually as taxing as boarding or cross-country skiing or as dangerous as alpine. It's a great alternative, in other words; for people who don't want to risk bodily harm. And it doesn't require lessons or even special places in which to do it. Secondly, the equipment has gotten better. Tubbs, the bestselling snowshoe in Vermont, still makes the original woodand-leather model that kicked off the company at the turn of the century. But the new hightech version is made of aluminum and neoprene, and has non-slip crampons built into not only the ball of the foot but also the heel. They're lighter, easier to maneuver

"Tubbs is one of the best snowshoes on the market," concurs Pete Munteanu, manager of Skihaus in Middlebury. He says that snowshoes are the fastest-moving sport item in the

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Mountain Club offer outings specifically for snowshoeing — 14 over the next three months. Business manager Lisa Hughes agrees that snowshoeing has become a more popular winter sport, but offers a note of caution about tramping on the Long Trail. "The blazes on the trees are white and hard to see when there's a lot of snow," she advises, "so you really need to have a good sense of where you're going." Better to use established cross-country trails, or in fields and woods where you can forge your own. Most modern snow shoes have some kind of cleat to provide traction on ice, an important factor to consid-

er when choosing a model. Experts recommend buying the smallest snowshoe possible to satisfy your needs — though the exact fit required by skis or boots is not critical; mom and kids may be able to use the same snowshoes. Pay attention to how much flotation they provide and the comfort and durability of the harness and binding. Poles can be helpful when navigating slopes. As for the rest of your gear, dress as you would for crosscountry skiing. In extremely cold conditions, snowshoeing has an advantage over fast-moving sports because you can bundle to the eyeballs and still move without getting too hot. In general, wearing layers is the wisest choice. Sturdy snow or hiking boots are sufficient footgear — but you can even wear Sorels. And remember, if snowshoes are still too expensive for the kids, there's always the old GMC standby: two tennis rackets and some old shoelaces. •

The Green Mountain Club is sponsoring two snowshoe hikes this weekend, Saturday to Stowe Pinnacle and Sunday to Camel's Hump. A full-fledged Snowshoe Festival takes place on February 24 in Waterbury. Also check out a snowshoe building workshop Monday night at the Green Mountain Audubon Society in Huntington. See Seven Days calendar for details.

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JUNG AND RESTLESS A therapist muses on motherhood, marriage and mid-life crisis

y old roomate from Boston, Kate, called me the other night. "Is this all there is?" she asked despairingly. I was all too familiar with the question — from clients and, truth be told, from myself as I wrestled with my own midlife demons. Kate, however, was the last person from whom I expected to hear this existential lament. In her 20s and early 30s Kate had been a successful, high-powered corporate lawyer, but chose to give up her career after her second child was born. Her marriage to another successful lawyer — and her hefty trust fund — enabled Kate to not only stay home with the children but to hire help. She also managed to find time for university classes and piano lessons — splitting her time between her English Tudor home in a tony Boston suburb and her beach house on Cape Cod. Kate, I had believed, came as close to "having it all" as one gets. So it came as a shock when my friend called reporting a crack in the fairy tale. As she spoke, I wondered whatever gave us "boomers" the inflated sense of entitlement that we could or should have it all, or the faulty notion that any single way of living was the dream. How did we get sucked into the myth of marriage and motherhood as akin to the Holy Grail? In her book, Crossing to Avalon, psychiatrist Jean Shinoda Bolen addresses the perils of mid-life crisis and charts the course to spiritual transformation. Bolen interprets the "crisis" as a spiritual quest to find one's true self and connect with the soul within. Jung referred to this spiritual quest as individuation: the energy within each individual to live the fullest, most creative life possible. But, as Bolen points out, before there can be individuation, the trip takes one's ego deep into the "forest." Jung identified this dark, swampy time as a "night sea journey" — a full meeting with the self, including the shadowy, unconscious side. The journey has its potential hazards. Like derailment. Recently one of my clients experienced this fear in the

form of a dream. In it, there were two train tracks. Emily got on the first train and was the only person aboard. All the seats were horizontally arranged. The train began moving and Emily became quite distressed as she looked out the window. Her vision and all the passing images were blurred, coming at her so fast that there was no time to assimilate anything. That blur that Emily experienced is a metaphor for life being out of perspective. Also, it's no accident that the train was empty. Jung's night sea journey is a solo adventure, without guides or maps to accompany one into the darkness. It must be faced alone. A

idea of simply fashioning a life without a husband and children was total anathema to us. The fairy tale legacies were too potent, too deeply ingrained to simply be disregarded. We would just do it on our terms, not waiting to be rescued, but buying into the dream nonetheless. In Writing a Woman's Life, Carolyn Heilbrun says, "the coming of age portends all the freedoms men have always known and women never [have] — mostly the freedom from fulfilling the needs of others and from being a female impersonator." Now entering what Jung called the second half of her life, Kate is reevaluating what is meaningful to her. "I love my husband and my children," she said. "I don't know what's wrong." As a friend, I would hope she won't run off with her hairdresser or go to India for a year, although I would try to be supportive if she did. As a therapist, I would encourage her to create a real life for herself, one with serious intent and purpose, rather than putting all her energies into dilettantish dabbling and lessons. In this way, she could both find herself and model to her children that they are a part of her life — but only a part. Her first allegiance is to herself. What a heretical concept. good therapist can be invaluable Last year, I watched with during this time — if only to interest as the nation conreassure the client that she is demned Susan Smith for not going crazy. drowning her children. The Kate and I used to stay up outrage was a societal response late talking, looking out at the to the shadow of a mother turnlights across the Boston Harbor, ing against her children. There like so many candles pointing can be no healing, no transforthe way to where we believed mation on any level, personal or our real future lay — ahead, collective, until we all undersomewhere in the distance, full stand that each of us, given the of promise. We were the transiright set of circumstances, is tional generation of women, the capable of doing what Susan baby boomers living on the Smith did. cusp of the women's revolution. Acceptance must come first, You could say that as a generabefore there can be transformation we were beneficiaries of the tion. That collective unadulterhard-won fight for women's ated rage said a lot more about rights, but not quite the rightful our society than it did about legal heirs as our daughters Susan Smith. As a country, we would become. are gravely out of touch with We fantasized about getting the shadow, especially the one married someday. Not like our about meaning, marriage and mothers who, at 20, viewed motherhood. • marriage as a careei1. No, we would have our independent Lisa Grace is a Burlington lives first, but with the full psychotherapist specializing in understanding that a man critical transitions in relationships would factor into the picture at and career. some point in the future. The

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e t c ADULT ED OPEN HOUSE: Considering college? The Prevel School shows interested adults around. Jeanmarie Hall, St. Michaels College, Colchester, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2100.

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k i d s 'WINTER WONDERS': Kids chill out by creating a snowstorm collage and their very own mitten. Discovery Museum, Essex Junction, 9:30 & 10:45 a.m. $4.25. Register, 879-7773. STORY TIME: Kids of all ages hear stories at Kids Town, S. Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 862-2807. PARENTS ANONYMOUS: Terrible twos or teens? Get support for parenting while your kids play next door. Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 800639-4014.

e t c 'SHE'S N O T OLD, SHE'S MY MOTHER': How have human service priorities shifted? What are the basic facts of aging? Hear about a model which sees oldsters as community resources. Community College of Vermont, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 828-4060. TOASTMASTERS MEETING: Learn to listen, think, talk and lead at this outspoken self-help group meeting. Ramada Inn, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-6142. O U T R I G H T MEN'S GROUP: Gay and bisexual men under 23 talk about their issues. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-9677. CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: People dealing with cancer get support based on the work of the National Wellness Communities. Cancer Wellness Center, Chace Mill, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Register, 865-3434.

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PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURE: Aerial photographer and cartographer Bradford Washburn discusses his black-and-white Alaskan landscapes. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 649-2200.

O MURDER ONE: Kent Cassellaplays a writer-sleuth in Rehearsal for Murder, Thursday through Sunday at Trinity College. A D O P T I O N MEETING: Wannabe parents meet for support. All Saints Episcopal Church, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1350.

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Burlington, 8 p.m. $6. Info, 872-2738. 'A FEAST OF SONG': The audience dines while the court intrigue unfolds in this original drama set in Renaissance England. Collis Center Common Ground, Dartmouth College Green, Hanover, N.H., 6 p.m. $22. Info, 603-646-2422.

a r t GALLERY SLIDE LECTURE: The cocurator of an exhibit of prints by Albrecht Durer offers his German perspective. Music Rehearsal Hall, Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-MIDD. DRAWING SESSION: Artists get inspiration from a live model. Artspace, Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 862-2898.

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t h e a t e r 'SLEUTH': See January 10. 'REHEARSAL FOR MURDER': See January 11. 'A FEAST OF SONG': See January 11. 'CURB DIVERS OF REDEMPTION': Stephen Goldbergs latest drama investigates the limits of charm, drugs and a Mexican beach. Burlington City Hall, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 86-FLYNN.

e t c ECONOMIC CONFERENCE: "Limping Toward the Millennium" places the sluggish Vermont economy in regional and national contexts. Governor Howard Dean joins Arthur Woolf and other speakers at the Sheraton-Burlington, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. $95. Register, 879-7774.

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SPIRITUAL TALK: Myra Woodruff gives a talk entitled, "Our Longing for a _. Spiritual Path." Shambhala Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 658-6795. GAME DINNER: Moose kabobs, bear stroganoff, elk sausage. Ten species offer their wild flesh at a benefit for the Vermont Folklife Center. Eagles Hall, Vergennes, 6 p.m. $15. Reservations, 388-4964. O U T R I G H T SUPPORT GROUP: Gay, lesbian, bisexual and "questioning" youth are invited to an ongoing support group meeting. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-9677. SENIOR SWIM: Folks over 50 exercise in a 86-degree pool. YMCA, Burlington, noon - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9622.

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GOSPEL CONCERT: The Union Church Gospel Choir from Montreal sings for Martin Luther King. Ira Allen Chapel, UVM, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 862-2409. CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT: Violinist Anatole Wieck and pianist Carmen Rodriquez-Peralta play works by Shostakovitch, Smetana and Amy Beach. Alexander Twilight Theatre, Lyndon State College, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 800-8055559.

d a n c e CONTRA DANCE: Rachel Nevitt calls for Viveka Fox at a family-oriented event. Holly Hall, Bristol, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 4534461.

t h e a t e r 'SLEUTH': See January 10. 'REHEARSAL FOR MURDER': See January 11. 'A FEAST OF SONG': See January 11. 'CURB DIVERS OF REDEMPTION': See January 12. 'AVNER T H E ECCENTRIC': Described as a "clown for the thinking man," actor Avner Eisenberg offers silent comedy at Moore Theater, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $14.50. Info, 603-646-2422.

f i l m 'MAN W I T H A PLAN': Vermonters Fred Tuttle and Bill Blachly star in the new John O'Brien film about a retired dairy farmer seeking a high-paying job that requires no experience. He decides to run for Congress. Spaulding Auditorium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $6. Info, 603646-2422.

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kids 'SONGS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN': Folksinger Lynn Robbins entertains families at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. STORY TIME: Kids over three listen up at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 8657216.

etc CROP CIRCLE TALK: Dowser Martin Hussey shares slides and info from his otherworldly investigation in Great Britain. Hauke Center, Champlain College, Burlington, 10 a.m. $2. Info, 860-5061. SNOWSHOE HIKE: Snowshoe 2.8 miles through the snow to Stowe Pinnacle. Meet in Montpelier, 8:30 a.m. Free. Register, 223-7035. ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE CONFERENCE: Bernie Sanders sponsors a statewide conference with workshops on cancer, heart disease, insurance and cross-cultural healing. Vermont Technical College, Randolph, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Register, 800-339-9834. SLEIGH RIDE WEEKEND: Tour the fields of this historical site in an old-fashioned farm sleigh. Also check out the traditional candlemaking and historical Daisy Turner video. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. $6.

Info, 457-2355." BIRDING AT VICTORY BOG: Bird detectives seek out pine grosbeak and a boreal zone of the Northeast Kingdom. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Woodstock, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. $ 10. Register, 457-2779. VEGETARIAN MEAL: Food Not Bombs dishes out a free meal. Come at 9:30 a.m. to help cook or 12:30 p.m. to eat. Last Elm Cafe, Burlington. Free. Info, 865-0622.

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» KING DAY LECTURE: Melissa Fay Greene, author of Prayingfor Sheetrock, discusses the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Pavilion Building, Montpelier, noon. And Fletcher Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2291 or 865-7211. SNOWSHOE BUILDING: Build a pair of snowshoes complete with bindings. Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center, Huntington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. 'SLEUTH': See January 10, 2 p.m. $95. Register, 434-3068. 'REHEARSAL FOR MURDER': See CIVIL RIGHTS TALK: Mary Frances January 11. Berry, U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner 'A FEAST OF SONG': See January 11. since 1980, speaks in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. St. Michael's Chapel, Colchester, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2535. P H O T O FIELD TRIP: Photophiles ANTI-RACIST PANEL: Four head for the snow-covered hills for inspiVermonters — David Dellinger, Judy ration. Bring your black and white film. Ashley, Leroy Nesbitt and Sonja Johnson Meet in the lower parking lot at Patrick — participate in a program entitled, Gym, UVM, Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. "How My Vision Has Changed in the Info, 864-6485. Struggle Against Racism." Mann Hall, SNOWSHOE/SKI: Check out Camel's Trinity College, Burlington, noon. Free. Hump with your choice of flat footwear. Info, 658-0337 ext. 297. Meet at the Richmond commuter parkEMOTIONS ANONYMOUS: Posting lot at 8 a.m. Free, Info. 893-1266. holiday blues? People with depression, PFLAG MEETING: Parents and Friends anxiety and other emotional problems of Lesbians and Gays meet at the First meet at the O'Brien Civic Center, S. United Methodist Church, Burlington, 2 Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, p.m. Free. Info, 863-4285. 660-9036. MEN ALIVE MEETING: All men looking for a safe place to be are welTEEN HEALTH CLINIC: Teens get come at this support group. Bishop information, supplies, screening and Booth Conference Center, Burlington, treatment for sexually-related problems. 6:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 865-2247. Planned Parenthood, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Pregnancy testing is free. Info, 8636326.

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STORY TIME: Youngsters from 18 to 36 months old listen at 10:30 a.m. Three-and-a-half- to five-year-olds hear stories at 9:30 a.m. Those over four listen up at 3:30 p.m. S. Burlington Library. Free. Register, 658-9010.

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theater 'A FEAST OF SONG': See January 11. LYRIC THEATRE AUDITIONS: Try out for the spring production of Oklahoma!. Singing, dancing and reading workshops are held at the same time as auditions. S. Burlington High School, 710 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2443.

kids 'SINGING & FUN': Robert Resnick displays his many musical talents at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 864-0377.

moose and venison — are on the menu Friday at the Eagles Hall in Vergennes. Plus, your appetite for local beasties supports a good cause. The Vermont Folklife Center assures all the recipes are historically correct.

\ J * , CANCER ANSWERS: Many doctors still bristle at die mention of alternative medicine. Others have come to accept its merit. But ultimately insurance companies decide whether you get the chiropractor or the brain scan. Congressman Bernard Sanders offershis political diagnosis of alternative health care at a Saturday conference in Randolph.

• • HAYWIRE: Farming is tough enough without extraterresrial tractor troubles. But alien art is one way to explain strange patterns that have cropped up in certain cornfields in Great Britain. The stalks are bent, not broken. Dowser Martin Hussey shows slides Saturday at Champlain College.

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e t c HISTORIC DEMO: Philip and Barbara Howard conduct an interactive demonstration of French and English Colonial clothing. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, noon. $3. Info, 865-4556. BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP: Mourning? Gather with others at the Visiting Nurse Association Adult Day Center, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1900.

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k i d s FIFTH BIRTHDAY PARTY: Did you turn five in '95? If so, celebrate with a game, a story, a library tour and a library card of your own. S. Burlington Library. Free. Register, 658-9010. 'FATHERS & CHILDREN T O G E T H ER': Eat, talk and play together at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0377. SCIENCE FOR PRE-SCHOOLERS: Create a snowstorm and learn how to dress for winter. Discovery Museum, Essex Junction, 9:30 & 10:45 a.m. $4.25. Register, 879-7773. VOLUNTEER TRAINING: If you like teaching kids and you love nature, get trained for the Winter Ecology Program. Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center, Huntington, 9:30 a.m. - noon. Free. Register, 434-3068. STORY TIME: Children of all ages hear stories at Kids Town, S. Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 862-2807. STORYTIME: Listen at the Children's Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655-1537.

TEEN PARENT AFTERNOON: Bring your kidlings for fun and food. Wheeler School, Burlington, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0377. PRESCHOOL NATURE PROGRAM: How do animals stay warm in the winter? Follow the clues at the Green Mountain Audubon Nature Center, Huntington, 9:30 a.m. - noon. Free. Register, 434-3068. STORY TIME: The under two-and-ahalf crowd listens 10:30-10:55 or 1111:25 a.m. Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free. Info, 865-7216.

e t c PUBLIC TRAIN MEETING: Are you concerned about the noise involved with the proposed rail project connecting Charlotte and Burlington? A presentation, with time for your comments, comes to the Regional Planning Office, Essex Junction, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3004.

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POLISHING STUDY SKILLS: Wednesday, January 10, 7-9 p.m. Trinity College, Burlington. Free. Register, 800-639-8885. The college admissions department offers tips. ATTORNEY TRAINING: Wednesday, January 10, 1-4:30 p.m. Woodbury College; Montpelier, $25. Info, 2290516. Hear about Vermont's alternative to law school

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f Vermonters take pride in anything, it's respecting privacy. We neatly proved that when we stayed cool as Coolidge about Solzhenitsyn's whereabouts. And, since writer Jamaica Kincaid moved to Bennington a decade ago, locals have kept so quiet about it that most folks north of Route 4 still don't know she's here. This week, as Kincaid kicks off a national tour to promote her new book, The Autobiography of My Mother, she apparently plans to return the favor. "I hope people don't ask me about Vermont," Kincaid tells me in her crisp, colonial British accent. "I don't want anyone to know that it's a wonderful place. I am one of those people who wants to close the door behind them." With a warm dignity, and her renowned wit at the ready, Jamaica Kincaid, 46, is charming. She spices her everproper speech with little quips that hint at a depth of experience and opinion too powerful for our polite conversation to contain. She recalls, for example, her 11 -year-old awe of Jane

Eyre's strength in the face of adversity, adding, "Not that I believe in triumph at all. I don't think there are any triumphs." She pauses and, with a singsongy "but, never mind," makes it clear: She does not intend to revisit personal tragedy today. Kincaid's struggles — triumpharit or fruitless — are well-documented in her books. Her first novel, Annie John, parallels Kincaid's West Indian girlhood in a country run by white British men, and echoes the loss of her mothers attention after the birth of her brothers. The non-fictional A Small Place exposes her island homeland as a post-colonial corrupted paradise. And, through the acclaimed Lucy, Kincaid traces her emigration at age 16 to be a New York au pair, and her maturation into a woman with memory, anger and despair "at my disposal."

of a struggling writer in Manhattan. With no degrees of formal writing training — "I have absolutely none," she says, "but I wasn't aware one needs that sort of thing" — she made her entrance into the

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"Everyone thought it was a sign of defeat, because people have to live in Manhattan and do all these fabulous Manhattan things," Kincaid says. "Now everyone we know who doesn't have a great deal of money wishes they could leave. It would make me uncomfortable to have a great deal of money."

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She pauses, and adds a characteristic Kincaid quotable: "Unless someone else committed the crime necessary to have money. Then I could still be high-minded." Kincaid's withdrawal from the Manhattan scene became complete last year with her sudden resignation from The New

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Yorker. Sudden, that is, to readers who've followed her column's insights on contemporary life over the last 20 years. Sudden, and even stunning for the literary set who watched the magazine launch Kincaid's career and excerpt all her novels. For Kincaid, though, it was an overdue response to the new leadership — T i n a Brown took the editorial reins in the early 90s — and to accompanying changes in the magazine's approach. " The New Yorker used to be a journal of literature," Kincaid

says. "It was about writers and writing. I think its now about personalities." Insisting she doesn't "have a problem at all" with future work being printed by her former employers, Kincaid states. "There is no New Yorker. It's just like any other magazine. I wouldn't give it any more consideration than I would People magazine for my work." When Kincaid returns from her book tour, it will be to the house she affectionately described in one of her last New Yorker columns. The article never mentioned Vermont, but knowing readers can place the four-bedroom, cedar-shingled home by references to its views of Mt. Anthony. She'll spend time with her family, which now numbers four: Annie is 11, and Harold is seven. She'll plan her beloved gardens, and do some reading. "Non-fiction," she specifies. "There's so much I don't know. I like to catch up." By fall, she'll start her fourth semester of teaching creative writing and literature at Harvard. And, while she keeps an apartment in Boston and retains her Antiguan citizenship, Kincaid is committed to the Vermont way of life. "I can't imagine living anywhere else," she says. "It just resists trends. There are absolutely no good restaurants. Thank god." •

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ARICS

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): As millenial fever heats up to epidemic proportions, we find ourselves awash inprophecies of mayhem and doom. Earth changes, alien abductions, viral outbreaks, crime waves — name our poison. Then on the other hand there's little old me over here babbling my weird theories about how our planet's future is much brighter than anyone can imagine. Which leads me to an important question. Given the fact that visions of nihilism and apocalypse seem to be extremely cool and becoming cooler every day, do you really want to be getting your horoscopes from a geek}' optimist like me? Be forewarned that in 1996, 1 will try to sell you the preposterous notion that good things are more likely to happen to you if you believe they will.

TAURUS

(Apr. 20-May 20): Are you familiar with "Breathe Right," that strip of tape the football players wear across their noses? It's supposed to facilitate breathing by "reducing airflow resistance." I tried to get the manufacturer to sponsor your horoscope this week. They refused, but I'm making their product your metaphor, of the week, anyway. You see, Taurus, you should be reducing "flow resistance" in every area of your life right now. You ihould be pushing hard for fewer constrictions, wider horizons and lots more breathing room.

GCMINI

(May 21-June 20): Recycling should be the central metaphor of your life this week, the vaison d'etre, the modus operandi. I'm not just talking about getting your cans and bottles to the ecology center, either. You should examine every ancient thought, every moth-eaten emotion, every antiquated project for evidence that it might be crushed or compacted or melted down and turned into rich fodder for a future dream.

Pigs," the wolf eats the first two pigs and t h e • m pig eats he is willing to his brothers an*||| wolf, that pig probably wouldn't mind eating roast beef. The : fourth pig had none, probably so he could fly. "Hickory, dickory dare, the pig flew up in the air. The man in brown soon brought him down, hickory dickory dare." If you were sitting on the bicycle next to mine, you would probably have left by this time. But my story would continue to wind through the rest of poems. Bv the time I climb off the bicycle I feel like I've been on a real trip.

reason you should always pedal hard enough to break a swear. After you know the words by heart, they circulate through your blood system. You can memorize poems during almost any kind of exercise. The Stairmaster and the treadmill-both work well. If you are memorizing in the pool, be sure to enclose the poem in a plastic bag. Racquetball is a bit of a challenge, but if your opponent agrees, you can tape the poem to his or her back and refer to it during the game. Use your imagination — and exercise of poetry. • Peter Burns is a storyteller who lives — and sweats — in Burlington.

CANCCR (June 21-July 22): O n e of my favorite poets, Cancerian Robert Haas, once mused, "All interesting works of art say the opposite of what they started out to say." Though that may be a bit of an exaggeration, it does appear to be applicable to you now. During the next 12 months, I predict that you will become a more interesting work of art every day, and it will have much to do with the fact that you'll be turning the story of your life in a radically different direction. LCC (July 23-Aug. 22): Last year had certain metaphorical resemblances to the time when you first passed your driving test. T h e beginning of this year will have lots in common with the three months after you first got your license. Think of it like this: You're official now; you're bonafide. And yet you're also very green, virtually a virgin when it comes to using your newly minted skills under real-life pressure. May I suggest, therefore — speaking symbolically h e r e — that instead of heading right out to the crazed freeway or the manic downtown, you cruise on the sparsely-traveled back roads until your experience catches u p with your new credentials?

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If you're a typical Virgo, your health has been chronically iffy and delicate forever. Sometimes you appear to be an incorrigible hypochondriac. Other times you seem to be a courageous champion putting up a brave fight against all the bugs you're assailed by. I predict all that'll change later this year, as the energizing planet Mars launches a toning program that'll have you in your best shape ever by the spring of 1997. In the meantime, to prepare yourself, upgrade your education about all your health issues.

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(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): According to my astrological research into your anatomy, the part of your body that most urgently needs more exercise is your jaw. Lets brainstorm about how you can take care of this. I suppose you could eat lots of rare steaks and porkchops without using a knife and fork, forcing your mandibles to do more than their usual share of ripping and tearing. And I imagine you could get more aerobic action by chewing big u.uls of gum. But what I really had in mind was for you to do more gabbing and chatting and yakking. H o w about it? Get out there and schedule some talkathons. Arrange dates with good listeners. And say what you mean about 10 times harder than usual.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): My $5-an-hour advice is blunt, predictable and only takes a few seconds to impart. It goes as follows: "Never try to be something you're not. Find out what you were made to do, and do it with all your might." O n the other hand, my SlOOO-a-minute wisdom is complicated, ambigious and difficult to convey in less than two weeks of storytelling. Here's just a hint of it: "Sometimes you get very interesting results from tlying to be something you're not. Going against the grain may tweak you in such a way that you 11 have a special grace when you eventually get around to doing what you were made to d o . '

CAPRICORN

FACING REALITY Continued from page 6 Lise massaged my feet. At first I was self-conscious about the big plantar's wart on my toe, but soon succumbed to the little willies shooting up my shins. The music was classical, the scent lavender. I forgot about the photographer in the room. I forgot about my diminishing bank account, about the

facial isn't cheap. The 90minute luxury I had normally costs $65. It's worth every penny because you get four nifty-smelling Aveda products for free. But you may end up spending more, because that lavender-induced haze makes buying a clay mask seem like . the best idea since fire. My skincleansing routine now includes toner, cleanser, exfoliant, spottreatment, clay mask and moisturizer. What's more, I actually like the stuff — and the smell takes me back to the time I spent in the salon. But — sorry, Marie-Lise — it hasn't yet curbed my age- old ritual. Splorp splorp, phoot phoot. A couple more zits gone from my face. Hallelujah! •

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(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): As I muse and meditate on where you're at right now, I'm drawn towards a place in West Africa called Cape Three Points. It's located at the one spot on the globe where zero degrees latitude intersects zero degrees longitude. It just so happens that Cape Three Points is also situated exactly at sea level — meaning its elevation is zero. As I see it, this place is a perfect metaphor for your own current state of affairs. You're at the triple zero point, baby. You're starting from scratch — in all the best and most challenging senses of that term — in three different ways.

AQUARIUS

Oan. 20-Feb. 18): There aren't any bad guys, really. Those who seem to be bad guys are simply so hypnotized by their own pain that they can't stop being nasty until their pain bottoms out. For that matter, there aren't really any good guys, either. Those who seem to be good guys are merely serving their own selfish interests, even though they might be hiding behind altruistic rationales. Under the circumstances, my friend, the best you can do is do what you do so well, which is to treat everyone with democratic equanimity. Play no favorites; take no sides; be the unflappable peacemaker.

PISCCS

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Within the space of a mere two months, three slow-moving planets have shifted signs. (Uranus this week, Pluto in November and Jupiter two weeks ago.) A mass migration of this magnitude is a rare astrological event. It presages radical mutations for all of us. You Pisceans, with your highly-tuned antennae, are no doubt abuzz with anticipation, sensing that Something Very Big is about to happen. Please remember, though, that Very Big does not mean Very Bad. In fact, keep this cosmic law in mind: To the degree that you obsessively seek safety and self-preservation, they'll elude you. To the degree that you welcome the wild, wild future, it'll never hurt you.

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one of the larger medical centers. Driving the formation of these hospital alliances is the expectation that smaller, rural hospitals will have a tough time surviving on their own as government and the private sector pressure them to cut costs. To hospital administrators and physicians, a storm is coming, especially as the Republican Congress promises deep cuts in the projected spending on Medicare. The larger medical centers like Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Fletcher Allen offer safe harbor. They tend to have healthier balance sheets and better access to lower-cost capital, and they promise to help rural hospitals and physicians cut costs by eliminating unnecessary, or even harmful, medical care. In that respect, hospitals and doctors themselves will be acting a lot more like HMOs, limiting patient access to health care deemed unwarranted.

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BURLINGTON: Roomy house on river in New North End. W/D, large yard. Pets okay. On bike path. $400 + 1/2 util. Larry, 860-6898.

YOLANDA WANTS YOU! Yolanda (fierce, queer singer songwriter) looking for fierce, queer keyboards, percussion, bass for performance Feb. 9. Large venue. Call 865-0385.

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DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR BURLINGTON CITY ARTS This position manages and coordinates all fund-raising activities by Burlington City Arts. Extensive knowledge of fund-raising and grantwriting practices and procedures, knowledge of federal, state and private funding sources and grant administration, thorough knowledge of budgetary procedures and fiscal management. Additional responsibilities include program coordination and development. Bachelor's degree in related field preferred; equivalent work experience also considered. Four years experience in arts programming and administration, with at least two years in grants and budget administration. Proficient typing and computer skills, knowledge of database management, spreadsheets, Aldus PageMaker and Wordperfect are essential. Submit City of Burlington application to: Laurie D. Lemieux, HR Dept., City Hall, Burlington, VT 05401. Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply. EOE.

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