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...develop ways of delivering the Pill's key steroids-estrogens and progesterones-in smaller and therefore less dangerous doses. One device being tested by Dr. Daniel R. Mishell of the University of Southern California School of Medicine seems to hold unusual promise: it is a small (two-inch diameter), doughnut-shaped flexible plastic ring that a woman can insert into her vagina. It prevents conception, not by blocking the sperm, as does the diaphragm, but by releasing a small steady trickle of steroids into the bloodstream through the mucous membranes of the vagina. The quantity is sufficient to prevent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control: New Look at the Old | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...will be out of the game for a while," quipped Henry Kissinger as the Harlem Globetrotters made him an honorary member last week. The slapstick-basketball players presented the outgoing Secretary of State with a team uniform, playing shoes, warmup jacket and an autographed basketball. Standing on an eight-inch-high platform to measure up to his guests, Kissinger approvingly noted that his new uniform bore the number 1. Said Henry: "The numeral accords with my estimate of myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 3, 1977 | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...that you have rented or purchased "ce qu'il faut," where do you go to cross-country ski? The answer is anywhere and everywhere there is an inch and a half of snow...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Why Ski Cross-Country? | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

When they trimmed his nails, Hughes insisted that they leave his left thumbnail about a half-inch long and squared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Scenes from the Hidden Years | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Arabs talked of peace and hailed 1977 as the year for a Middle East settlement. Israelis warned of war as they watched Syrian peace-keeping forces in Lebanon inch closer to the country's southern border. Both sides in the Middle East conflict seemed sincere enough last week in their expressions of hope and fear. But it was also clear that both were engaged in a certain amount of posturing-aimed not so much at each other as at the incoming Administration in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Offensive for Peace, Warning of War | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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