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...partner's sperm count. A lawsuit is pending against a physician in Torrance, Calif., who is accused of duping patients into believing he was performing in vitro fertilization when he wasn't even collecting eggs. Consumers are advised to seek guidance from either the American Fertility Society, based in Birmingham, or Resolve, a national infertility organization with headquarters in Somerville, Mass. "You need to be a careful consumer," warns Dr. Arthur Wisot, a Redondo Beach, Calif., infertility specialist. "If you're going to invest all your life's hopes and dreams, you should at least check out the qualifications...
Although this year's violence has been widespread, involving similar incidents in Oxford, Cardiff and Birmingham, the Times of London concluded that the worst was over. All would be well when the weather changed, an editorial predicted, because "the best policeman of all is rain...
...University of Alabama in Birmingham programs, older kids stage plays and operettas; younger ones play with blocks as a means of learning how to add and subtract. Says director Virginia Marsh: "We have never had a discipline problem. The children are so busy doing things that they don't have time to get bored...
...children in Birmingham -- and everywhere else in the country -- are going to be a lot busier in the coming decade. And so are their instructors. Yale Professor Edward Zigler, director of the Bush Center for Child Development and Social Policy, predicts that "by the year 2000, the number of working women will rise to 75%. We will see full-day programs for children from the age of three." It will take thousands of new preschools to meet that demand, and many more thousands of new teachers and assistants. The prospect is inviting and daunting: the millennium is only nine years...
...tournaments at clubs that discriminated on the basis of race, the decision was hailed as somewhat akin to Jackie Robinson's arrival in major-league baseball in 1947. The Professional Golfers' Association heard a sudden outcry against holding the 1990 championship at all-white Shoal Creek Country Club in Birmingham -- and against the widely known but long-ignored fact that 17 of its 39 tour courses were at private clubs with no black members. The P.G.A. quickly imposed antibias rules, and Shoal Creek admitted its first black as an "honorary" member. Within months the women's and senior pro tours...