Word: beene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Catholics who take pro-choice stands have been particularly frustrating to the nation's bishops, who have been asked to respond decisively to dissenters. But a spokesman said it is highly unlikely that Maher's precedent would become national Catholic policy.
Now a team of medical researchers has devised a technique that may eventually help parents sidestep this predicament. Scientists at the Illinois Masonic Medical Center and Northwestern University, led by geneticist Yury Verlinsky, say they can test for genetic defects in the human egg even before it has been fertilized...
Researchers caution that the test remains experimental and will not be widely available for several years. It has been tried on just five eggs from one woman, and none of the embryos developed. Verlinsky attributes this to IVF's failure rate. But his team must repeat the test on many...
-- In Bulgaria at least 50,000 people marched peacefully through central Sofia, chanting "Democracy!" and "Free elections!" and demanding that Todor Zhivkov, the autocratic hard-liner who had been ousted only a week earlier after 35 years in power, be put on trial. Although the unthinkable has become a daily...
The biggest danger to Prague's inflexible leadership is an explicit Soviet disavowal of the 1968 invasion. Amazingly, that might be in the offing. Rude Pravo reported that Prague's chief of ideology, Jan Gojtik, had met with his Soviet opposite number in Moscow. Rude Pravo confirmed that the two...