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Norplant consists of six matchstick-sized capsules that, when inserted under the skin of a woman's arm between her armpit and her elbow, begin releasing small amounts of progestin, a hormone that blocks ovulation. The implant is effective within 24 hours of insertion for a period of five years with a success rate of 99.8%. Norplant is also cheap at about $500 for the capsules, insertion, and removal. By comparison, purchasing birth control pills over the same period would cost $900. Once Norplant is removed, fertility is restored. Not even stitches are necessary...
...East Side to lunch, Mrs. Clinton moved on to the 50th-floor conference room of the Chemical Bank building, where she gulped Diet Dr Pepper and deposed health-care experts. Alternately, she continued calling key members of Congress to pay the kind of respects that will make the eventual arm twisting easier. Along the way she remembered that it would be possible to fit more people into the President's first official dinner on Sunday night and told an aide to send out more invitations. By then it was time to have a long chat with Chelsea about her second...
...with excellent performances to make "Breathless" a seductive portrait of people with glamorous outsides and messed-up, fairly desperate insides. It's as if you were to get right up close to the blissful couple in Robert Doisneau's photograph "The Kiss"--and discover that he's twisting her arm. It's a beautiful, terrifying experience...
...Nakajima as he vowed to strive for "harmony" during a second five-year term as director-general of the World Health Organization. His task appears daunting. In an atmosphere of distinct bureaucratic disharmony, Nakajima, 64, emerged victorious from an 18-13 vote of the executive board of WHO, an arm of the U.N., thanks largely to Third World support -- and despite a determined campaign waged against him by the U.S. and the European Community...
...taking the oath of office, he nearly stepped on Chief Justice William Rehnquist's lines. Meanwhile, George Bush, who was married before Clinton was born, wore an understandably defeated look. He stared at Clinton with the naked anguish of a father whose teenage boy had just beaten him at arm wrestling for the first time...