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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infections today--double the percentage in 1992--may be resistant to Bactrim and Septa, the most widely prescribed medications. Other drugs that are penicillin-based no longer work on 1 out of 3 infections. What tends to bring on the infection? Frequent sex and the use of a diaphragm and spermicides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Mar. 8, 1999 | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...aggressively propelled many of the tunes with unrelentingly rhythmic bass lines; and Deal leavened the raw power of her vocals with sensitivity. Her muscular voice never strained, and she displayed impressive range and intonation. At times she could be sweet and velvety. Then she would let loose from the diaphragm and sing a chorus with no mercy. Such was the case with "Brillo Hunt." The song began coy and reserved, but the chorus exploded into crashing cymbals and distorted guitars as Deal's forceful voice ranged over surprisingly complex musical terrain...

Author: By John T. Reuland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The New Deal: From Riches to Rags | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...daughter to sing and sing until she is prostrate, dying on the davenport, still belting out Hoffmann's and her love song. Cannon is an amazing vocalist, with beautiful phrasing and dynamics, all the more amazing because she sang her last number lying down. That's some powerful diaphragm...

Author: By Elisabetta A. Coletti, | Title: Dunster House Opera Spins Rousing 'Tales' | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

...says Andersen, and William Holden to Jackie's. Andersen says it is likely, and Klein firmly claims, that Jackie lost her virginity in a Paris elevator to author John P. Marquand Jr. Klein describes, in a scene that begs credulity, how Jackie asked a CIA agent to ship her diaphragm from Washington to Italy so she could sleep with Gianni Agnelli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: SO HAPPY TOGETHER? | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

When advising a female student about contraceptives, Bender says PCC counselors first establish how comfortable a woman is with her body and how appropriate a method like the sponge or diaphragm--which both require insertion--would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GETTING SAFE | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

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