YEARBOOK_1997

Page 316

LIFESTYLE

flash Helping

consumers

maintain

privacy,

marketers promote home AIDS tests.

Consumers draw their own

blood and then send

it away to be tested

confidentially. Advancing technology means more options on telephones, including Caller ID, which becomes than

common

more

in

ever

display unit people to see the

1996. The allows name

and number of

their caller before the

answering

even

phone.

Authors Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider release The Rules,

a

controversial manual

teaching women strategies for getting man

a

to propose

marriage.

While the book

draws criticism from

both sexes, it is

a

best-seller. The U.S. Postal Service issues stamps

commemorating Hanukkah, the first Christian

holiday on a

non

religious

ever

featured

stamp.

Casual more

Fridays

and

become

more

widespread

in American

work culture. Businesses

employees who normally dress in professional clothing at allow

work to

wear more

comfortable, casual

clothing

on

Fridays.

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