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...likely to be less expensive than surgical abortion, given the number of doctor's visits and the possibility that the pills will sell for $200. And it is not as though you take a pill and the baby disappears. Medical abortion, as opposed to surgical, is a multistep process, requiring three visits to the doctor over a period of two weeks. The first visit is to make sure the pregnancy is still early enough for the pill to be used safely, which will automatically exclude many women who don't realize they are pregnant until more than 49 days after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pill Arrives | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...microbe that is responsible--Cyclospora cayetanensis--doesn't come from the relatively familiar world of viruses and bacteria. Instead, it hails from the strange realm of protozoa--single-celled organisms that have complex, multistep life cycles and are big enough to be seen under an ordinary microscope. Protozoa are usually found in ponds and moist, humid places like garden soil. There are many different types of protozoa, but this particular strain was not identified until the early 1990s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STRAWBERRY SICKNESS | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...past performance is any indication, Gorbachev may be swinging to the right only to lull conservatives into complacency before swinging back toward the middle. TASS political analyst Andrei Orlov explained Gorbachev's recent behavior as "a carefully hatched multistep maneuver aimed at changing the alignment of political forces in ((his)) favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev's New Best Friends | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

Some students who have used the new feature said that they were unable to leave messages because some students' voice mailboxes are already full, and others cite the multistep accessing procedure as too time consuming...

Author: By Steven N. Kalkanis, | Title: Voice Mail: Callers Lost In a Brave New World | 9/18/1990 | See Source »

...Only 6% of 17-year-olds can handle algebra or multistep math problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Flunking Grade in Math | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

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