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...insert and remove at will. The French abortion pill, RU-486, is being actively considered for approval in several other European countries but has not been approved in the U.S. Thanks in part to political skittishness about funding contraception in the U.S., American women still have a paltry array of birth- control choices. Many experts see this contraceptive gap as the chief reason why 3.5 million unwanted pregnancies still occur each year in the U.S. Policymakers are a long way from stopping that national tragedy, but the approval of Norplant may be a start...
Kuwait's foreign-asset portfolio approaches a monumental $100 billion, which is invested in a bewildering array of stocks, bonds and entire companies around the world. Almost 70% of the total has been segregated for use when the wells run dry. The Fund for Future Generations, as it is called, is a model of enlightened policy and smart politics. "Other rulers in other places have kept the money for themselves and their friends, doling out just enough to keep their populations contained during their reigns," says Jasem Mohammed al-Hussein, a wealthy Kuwaiti businessman. "Our rulers, the Sabahs, have earned...
Marilyn: Something's Got to Give includes interviews with an array of people who took part in the filming, from producer Henry Weinstein to the former child actors who played Monroe's children. Wonderful nuggets of Marilyniana emerge. Her insecurities led Monroe to demand that a blond extra be tossed off the set and later to complain that co-star Cyd Charisse was padding her bra. When the Shah of Iran visited the Fox lot, Monroe refused to meet him until she found out Iran's position on Israel...
...achieve the exacting specifications for the mirror, Perkin-Elmer used an optics template, a tubular array of smaller mirrors and lenses linked by connecting rods, to guide the grinding and polishing processes. When the Allen committee tested this template assembly, it found that there was a critical error of 1.3 mm (0.05 in.) in the placement of the template's components. The Hubble mirror was carefully fashioned to match exactly this error in the template...
Biological weapons can employ a deadly array of organisms and naturally occurring toxins. Packaged inside small bombs and delivered by aircraft or artillery shells, the germs would be released in a mist of infectious droplets that victims would inhale. A tiny amount would go a long way. Less than 1 g (0.035 oz.) of a bacterium called tularemia could produce thousands of deadly doses. U.S. officials insist that soldiers can be protected from such an attack with gas masks and nonpermeable clothing. But the gear cannot be worn indefinitely, especially in the desert's searing heat, and strains resistant...