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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increasingly difficult, however, to visualize any of the starting five lifting his arms in the traditional V before an adoring convention come July -- let alone graciously accepting George Bush's concession on Election Night. Bill Clinton for a time looked like a deflating balloon, the air hissing out of his candidacy through a new pinhole labeled Draft Avoidance, as well as the previous puncture made by Gennifer Flowers. He has enough money and organizational support, especially in his native South, to remain a force at least through Super Tuesday on March 10. But even if he could start a comeback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Someone Else Leap In? | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...Penis size has nothing to do with the sexual satisfaction of a woman," she said, explaining that the vagina was like a "balloon" and could accommodate any size...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Let's Talk About... SEX (Good Sex, That Is) | 11/1/1991 | See Source »

Under instruction from the Pentagon, Army investigators from the nearby base retrieved the debris and sent if to Ford Worth and Los Alamos, where it was analyzed and officially reported to be the remains of a weather balloon with a reflective radar attachment...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: TUNING IN TO THE UNIVERSE | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

There are treatments for each of these conditions. Blocked Fallopian tubes can be freed or cleared of obstructions by a variety of operations, ranging from laser-beam surgery to inflating a tiny balloon within the clogged passage. Men with extremely low sperm counts can be helped toward fatherhood by artificial insemination, which puts what sperm they have directly into the cervix, or by microinjection, which puts a single sperm right into the egg. And for couples with sperm-allergy problems, a procedure known as sperm washing strips the sperm of some of the chemical antigens that trigger the allergic reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treating Infertility: Making Babies | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...yours but another's and content yourself with the terrible algebra of your own . . . We all live together, and those of us who love and know, live so most." He told her, "Even if we don't reach the sun, we shall at least have been up in a balloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Best Refuge For Insomniacs | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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