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Science-fiction writers, stymied by the laws of physics, turn to such literary devices as time warps to make interstellar travel possible. Now women, physicians and population-control advocates, dismayed by most states' strictures against abortion, have developed a procedure that offers a similar semantic solution. In a growing...
Menstrual extraction is essentially a vacuum-aspiration method in which the fertilized egg, if present, and the uterine lining are withdrawn by means of a tube inserted through the cervix. It differs significantly, however, from similar procedures performed in clinics in New York and other states where abortion is legal...
Many of the schemes, particularly those that benefit Poland's depressed economy, are pitched toward the 12 million people of Polish extraction in the U.S. In order to help handle this summer's record number of Polish-American tourists (officials expect as many as 30,000), the Polish...
Two years later, it was the Supreme Court that showed mercy. It unanimously threw out the conviction on the grounds that the slowness in bringing Mallory before a magistrate was an "unnecessary delay" in violation of federal rules, and that such delays "must not be of a nature to give...
As the second biennial Arctic Winter Games got under way this month in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, it became painfully clear that the organization of the event left something to be desired. Take the case of Simon Tookoome, the Northwest Territories' leading ipirautaqturniq (precision whip flicking) virtuoso. Not only did...