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...doctors, 'Oh, you have plenty of time,' even when I was 38," says Claudia Morehead, 47, a California insurance lawyer who is finally pregnant, using donor eggs. Even among fertility specialists, "it was shocking to us that IVF didn't work so well after age 42," admits Dr. Sarah Berga, a reproductive endocrinologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "The early '90s, to my mind, was all about how shocked we were that we couldn't get past this barrier." But even as doctors began to try to get the word out, they ran into resistance...
...rich Hassi R'Mel field (estimated reserves 700 million bbl.), only 280 miles from Algiers, and the 20 boreholes in the Edjelé field (capacity 700 million bbl.), where the oil is only 1,350 ft. underground. The same applies to the huge natural-gas reservoir at Djebel Berga (2,000,000 cu. ft. a day) and vast storehouses of industrial metals in other areas of the Sahara (TIME, July 1). Plans for railroads and pipelines tapping these resources and bringing them to the sea have been drawn up, but they wait a settlement of the Algerian political problem...
Miners and textile workers cut all telephone wires and cables out of Manresa, then seized thousands of pounds of dynamite from the Iberian Potash Works. Up and down the valley spread the revolution. Soviet flags went up over Berga, Alto, Gironella, Puigreig, Salient, Cardona. Excited crowds rallied to Leon Trotsky's old slogan: "EUROPE IS BURNING AT BOTH ENDS!!" Rich farmers and mill owners were kidnapped. Peasants were threatened with death...