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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This evidence--that a fetus is a human life--is the reason that pro-lifers cannot abandon the abortion debate. I have been interested of late to hear advocates of abortion calling for us to go "beyond abortion." It is unfortunate that by this they mean that we should all accept the fact of abortion, stop talking about it and move to other issues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sound of Children Dying | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

Most rare-metals traders, however, abandon any pretense of legitimacy and begin to act more like characters in a Hollywood thriller. Buyers, accompanied by bodyguards carrying suitcases of cash and by their own scientific experts for testing the goods, fill hotels in Baltic ports, where Russian smugglers congregate. The sellers are most likely to be mafia-connected hustlers or former KGB agents -- some of whom have even set up joint ventures with former CIA agents to smuggle strategic materials. The trade is so brisk that Estonia has emerged as one of the world's leading exporters of rare metals, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Trade: Arms Trade | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...seek a larger audience. This summer, for instance, she will sing the title track on When Doves Cry, an album of Prince songs performed by jazz musicians and vocalists. But even when covering pop songs, she gives them jazz depth. "I've gone too far into jazz to ever abandon it," she says. That's one prophesy that no one should doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Soft Songs, Hard Truths | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

Bell Atlantic and TCI abandon their $33 billion megadeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...Arafat is the prospect of growing support for Hamas, the militant Islamic organization that is the P.L.O.'s chief rival for the allegiance of Palestinians in the occupied territories. Hamas called the mosque massacre "a final message to Arafat and his group to either return to his people and abandon his surrender to the Jews or his people will consider him and his group part and parcel of Zionism." Freih Abu Middain thinks the massacre "crowns Hamas as the group that speaks the straightforward truth about the Israelis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fury Rules | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

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