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...works by adhering to certain hormone receptors in the uterus that under normal circumstances accept progesterone, the substance that prepares the uterine lining to receive a fertilized egg. Because the presence of RU 486 blocks the action of progesterone, the uterine lining sloughs off, and the embryo is expelled, as an unfertilized egg is during a normal period. Although bleeding is usually heavier than during menstruation, only a pregnancy test prior to receiving the drug will tell a woman for certain whether she has actually conceived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Month-After Pill | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...Sullivan." Through his managers' remarkable archives, including Tom Edison's 1894 kinetoscope of Gentleman Jim Corbett, Tyson is conversant with a day when boxers soaked their faces in brine and their hands in walnut juice. Fighting twice a month, at first in an Albany cracker box suitably called the Egg, Tyson has seemed to be of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Of Murderous Intentions | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Texas Gemmologist Roy Whetstine discovered the egg-size violet-and-blue rock in a Tupperware bin at an annual gem-and-mineral bazaar in Tucson last February. The amateur who had found the stone wanted $15 for it but readily sold it to the Texan for $10. Said Whetstine: "I was used to handling rocks and saying 'Yeah, that's a keeper' or 'That's no good.' " This one was a keeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gems: From Rocks to Riches | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...fraiche and caviars, chimney-smoked lobster, roast quail with savoy cabbage and kasha, wild mushroom tarts and such knockout desserts as macadamia nut tarts, lemon curd mousse and chocolate bread pudding. It would be a pity to cook by this book, thereby soiling pages with dabs of butter and egg yolk. Better photocopy recipes and keep the book on the coffee table, where it belongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I Cook, Therefore I Am | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...third is also the visiting team--the goose-egg layer known as the Crimson. In its second, third and fourth games of the season, Harvard put a total of zero points on the scoreboard, while giving up 44 to Holy Cross, 24 to William & Mary and three to Cornell...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: To Tell the Truth | 10/25/1986 | See Source »

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