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Reported by Laurence I. Barren and Neil MacNeil/ Washington...
Although conceiving babies in test tubes may slightly increase the chances of birth defects, the technique "may be a useful last resort for barren women," John D. Biggers, professor of Physiology, said last week...
Third World students for the time being are expressing cautious optimism publicly, but privately some admit that they face a dilemma. They view the proposal as a concession and with respect to Harvard's rhetoric-filled but action-barren history they are right. But they also realize that any criticism of the report may undermine their own interests...
...hamlet, citizens stood in line in hopes of getting a carp for the traditional Polish Christmas Eve dinner. When available, the fish cost $1.22 a pound. In downtown Warsaw, as a Dickensian gloom settled over the capital one evening, more than 70 people queued up before a seedy, barren-looking candy store in hopes of buying chocolates for their children. The shortages are worse than usual these days, because of hoarding inspired by Solidarity's strike threats last month. "People are buying three or four times what they need," complained a Warsaw housewife. The shortages, combined with panic buying...
Ciskei is an even less likely candidate for self-reliance. Its barren, eroded soil supports few crops or even trees. The pastoral people subsist on beans, maize, goats and a few dairy cattle. A drought last summer was so severe that it took $9.28 million in emergency aid from Pretoria to avert mass starvation. Though the territory is already densely populated, the government, under a "resettlement" program, sends in truckloads of unwanted blacks from urban areas. Once in Ciskei, many of the new arrivals live in stark tent towns with no schools, shops or running water...