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Would-be cosmonauts have plenty of time to ponder the far-out trip: the % drawing is set for next December, and the flight may not occur until 1993. Texas officials, however, have begun an investigation to determine whether the conditions of the offer amounted to a lottery rather than a sweepstakes. If so, it would violate state law and presumably be canceled long before the countdown begins...
...country in which medical breakthroughs occur with dizzying regularity, the U.S. has been disturbingly backward in the field of contraception research. Not a single fundamentally new birth-control method has been introduced since the Pill and the IUD, or intrauterine device, came out in the early 1960s. Meanwhile, in several European countries, a series of contraceptive innovations has broadened the range of methods far beyond what is available in the U.S. -- and sharply reduced the number of unwanted pregnancies...
...European countries but has not been approved in the U.S. Thanks in part to political skittishness about funding contraception in the U.S., American women still have a paltry array of birth- control choices. Many experts see this contraceptive gap as the chief reason why 3.5 million unwanted pregnancies still occur each year in the U.S. Policymakers are a long way from stopping that national tragedy, but the approval of Norplant may be a start...
...Gaia hypothesis, a theory of evolution that views the earth as a single organism with various feedback mechanisms to maintain conditions suitable for life. In SimEarth this means that as the heat from the sun increases 25%, as it has during the past few billion years, changes will automatically occur in factors like the rate of cloud formation to keep the surface temperature relatively stable. The feedback loops appear most valuable when they are turned off, as they were when I played in the "hard game" mode. Suddenly, rather than "playing" God, I found myself working overtime to keep...
...OLDEST DEAL For 35 years, a congressional committee has dithered about the design and funding for a memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Plans have now been set for a nine-acre, $47 million garden plaza in downtown Washington. Groundbreaking will occur next year for a scheduled 1995 dedication...