Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...allure of the fresh, well-made bagel, alas, defies verbal explanation. And yet despite this handicap, in recent years the bagel has been popularized across the nation, a development which culminated in the Dunkin' Donuts chains decision to enter the bagel-making field. In cities such as Memphis and Atlanta, bagels are becoming everything from an occasional bread substitute to a dietary staple...
...medical practice known as Reproductive Biology Associates, located in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody, is pretty typical of the 315 fertility clinics in the U.S. and of the hundreds more in other countries around the world. Most of its patients--couples, mainly, but also single women--are here on this crisp, bright autumn day because they have tried in vain to have babies the old-fashioned way. Now they hope that medical science can help them satisfy that most basic of instincts, programmed into the brain and body by millions of years of evolution: the urge to bear children...
...sperm, and over the years, attempts to freeze and thaw them have almost always ended in failure. R.B.A.'s success, though it may not have been quite as dramatic as the birth of septuplets, within days had made headlines all over the world. Within weeks, the Atlanta clinic had fielded calls from fertility experts and infertile couples as far away as England and Germany...
Like most couples, the Bielickis and the Burskis didn't need the newest assisted-reproduction therapies. That's just as well: these procedures have not entered the mainstream of clinical practice. Some, including R.B.A.'s egg-freezing technique. may never do so. A second patient in the Atlanta clinic is pregnant thanks to a frozen egg; so, reportedly, are three women in Italy, and births have previously been reported in Australia, Germany and Italy. But the success rate is still very low--only two births in 23 tries in Atlanta, so far--and the technique is expensive. So R.B.A...
...PEN/Faulkner prize for fiction and the Flannery O'Connor Award, plus a handful of other literary accolades? The answer hinges partly on the accident of his birth and the raw materials that fed his literary imagination. Now 41 and teaching English and creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta, Ha Jin had the good luck to be born outside the U.S. and hence be protected from the homogenizing and potentially trivializing influences that afflict so many U.S.-born aspiring authors. Beginners are advised to "write about what you know." Ha Jin inherited a frame of reference broader than...