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Every Monday morning, like clock-work, these people jam the freeways that connect their beltway suburbs to their downtown jobs; or, increasingly, they jam the beltway that leads from their single-family homes to their service jobs in the beltway commercial parks...
...helpless defender threw her stick towards Downing. This illegal interference resulted in another penalty stroke for Harvard with 41 seconds on the clock. Harrington came up big for Brown, thwarting shooter Ambinder...
...Americans who remember crouching under their desk during grade-school air- raid drills, the Strategic Air Command -- which kept nuke-carrying bombers airborne round the clock -- was a special icon of the cold-war mythology. But last week Air Force Secretary Donald Rice announced that SAC will be eliminated under a sweeping reorganization of the service. Its nuclear missiles and bombers will join the Tactical Air Command's conventional aircraft to form a single Air Combat Command. "Desert Storm demonstrated that the line between strategic and tactical air power has become blurred," says a report released by Rice's office...
...reproductive revolution: an explosion of new techniques for overcoming infertility and an unprecedented rush by would-be parents to take advantage of them. Thirteen years after the birth of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, in England, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has not only reset the biological clock for thousands of patients -- and produced some 10,000 babies in the U.S. alone -- but spawned a host of new procedures, like GIFT, ZIFT, microinjection and zona drilling, that offer even greater promise. Today, using the new technology, an infertile couple in their mid-30s has as good a chance...
...stamina of a bull, the courage of a lion." Provided, of course, that he gets eight hours of sleep plus "nappies." He drinks "medicinal" sherry on the rocks at four o'clock every afternoon. He smokes expensive cigars. He's a chocoholic. His sex life is mostly a memory. ("A happy memory, but a memory...