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...Europe, which is years ahead of the U.S., pharmaceutical companies are aggressively pursuing male birth-control pills, reversible vasectomies and long-lasting vaccines. Even women in many Third World nations have more choices than their American counterparts. Observes Carl Djerassi, a Stanford chemist who helped develop the first Pill: "The U.S. is the only country other than Iran in which the birth-control clock has been set backward...
...failure to develop any new kinds of contraception has helped lead to 1.5 million abortions a year in the U.S. By some estimates, up to half of them could be prevented if women had more birth-control options. Jennifer, a 20-year-old college student in Maine, has already had two abortions, following unsuccessful attempts to use the Pill and a diaphragm. "At this point I'm afraid to have sex," she says. "I don't know what...
...many treat important social issues such as AIDS, homelessness and pollution. But whether the subject is light or serious, exposure to interactive exhibits is giving youngsters new ideas about what museums should be like. Says Jane Jerry, director of the Children's Museum of Houston: "We want children to develop a lifelong passion for learning...
...rubbish" just a year ago and warned against taking a hasty decision on Article VI at the Congress of People's Deputies in December. Then, on his visit to Lithuania in January, he lobbed a political hand grenade, off-handedly remarking that he saw "no tragedy" in the development of a multiparty system. Last week he said the Communist Party would still struggle to play a leading role but "within the framework of the democratic process by giving up all legal and political advantages." The * Communists, he said, recognized that alternative parties might develop and were prepared to cooperate...
Since most febrile seizures are scary but harmless, researchers say, there is little reason ever to use phenobarbital as a treatment. About one-third of all the children who have these convulsions are likely to have subsequent ones, but only 4% eventually develop epilepsy...