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...there was little anyone could do about it. All that has changed dramatically. The growing problem of infertility -- exacerbated by a generation of would-be parents who put off having babies until their 30s and 40s -- and the early successes of in-vitro ("test tube") fertilization have laid the groundwork for a revolution in reproductive technology. Hardly a week goes by without news of a breakthrough to help nature take its course. Last week produced two such announcements: one offers new hope to women with blocked Fallopian tubes; the other promises to extend women's fertility beyond their prime childbearing...
...physicist who laid the intellectual groundwork for this now mainstream theory, Caltech's Murray Gell-Mann, long ago won the Nobel Prize. But it was not until last week that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored the men who first detected the existence of quarks. Americans Jerome Friedman, 60, and Henry Kendall, 63, of M.I.T., and Richard Taylor, 60, a Canadian working at Stanford, share the physics award for discoveries made at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center beginning in the late 1960s...
...group of students say they have laid the groundwork for Inside Japan, a magazine dedicated to Japanese culture, politics and economy on campus. Already, the publication's executive board has begun networking with other organizations, such as the Japanese Consulate and universities in Japan, in an effort to gear up for its premiere issue this February...
...Sidney Bechet, the story goes, the music thrived until the closing of the red-light district in 1917 sent many of the Crescent City's best players up the Mississippi in search of work. There they gave birth to the brash, vibrant Chicago sound, which helped lay the groundwork for what would eventually become the swing style that reigned during the Big Band...
Just when you thought your blues collection was complete, Columbia Records reaches back into its well-stocked vaults and brings forth a treasury of historic sides that helped lay the groundwork for modern rock, soul and rhythm and blues. The first eight releases in the ambitious ROOTS 'N BLUES series feature the work of such greats as Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy and Willie Dixon. But the most eagerly awaited offering is the boxed, two-volume (CD or cassette) set containing all 41 known takes by the legendary Robert Johnson, whose brooding, anguished voice and ringing guitar...