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...original camel pebble simply discouraged mating. Today's I.U.D.s are effective (up to 98%) for different reasons. Inserted into the uterus, they cause a minor inflammation of the uterine lining that prevents the fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall after its journey through the fallopian tube. Certain types of I.U.D.s also function by releasing copper or the hormone progesterone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: I.U.D. Debate | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...plastic bags and pillowcases. Some shied away from the military trucks and soldiers at first; they had been told back home that they would be mistreated in the U.S. But when a smiling airman in an Air Force van tossed out bags each containing a sandwich, a hardboiled egg, a carton of milk and an apple, the newcomers were delighted. Some of the children had never seen an apple before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Open Heart, Open Arms | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

Soul-Joy in Body-Fort Health Foods is a small but colorful storefront set amid the continuous wall of dull brick that makes up Beacon Hill's Charles Street. Behind the counter, Marion Lennihan, dressed in a flowing yellow sarong, finishes cutting up enough tofu and egg salad sandwiches for the expected lunchtime rush from nearby Mass General Hospital. Lennihan is a disciple of Sri Chinmoy, an Indian teacher who arrived in the U.S. in 1964 and began attracting followers soon after. Several pictures of the guru hang on the wall, showing Chinmoy playing tennis, jogging, and sitting...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Tour of 'Benares on the Charles' | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

Capitalism in the U.S. is alive and working [April 21], but it is not well. And you can thank the Federal Government for that. It is excessive governmental controls that have killed the goose that laid the golden egg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1980 | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...have been known to get frivolous cases, or splendidly prepared ones that are nevertheless boring almost beyond belief. Also, the system is designed to maximize the judge's anxiety-that he has just made a mistake, or is about to. It is not just that (as the egg sorter complained about his job) it is "decisions, decisions, decisions all day long"; it is that the system is designed to ensure that the questions presented to us are the hardest to resolve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: By and Large, We Succeed | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

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