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...world's first test-tube baby, conceived by means of in vitro fertilization, in which, after her mother's egg and father's sperm were united in a laboratory, the resulting embryo was implanted in her mother's womb. Louise's subsequent, internationally celebrated birth launched a new branch of medicine that has come to be known as "assisted reproductive technology...
...President Al Gore, press secretary Mike McCurry, communications director Don Baer, policy adviser Bruce Reed and presidential counselor Bill Curry. But his closest confidant is the President himself, for whom he prepares exclusive briefing books that sometimes critique Clinton's other advisers. Some aides say Morris sees the Executive Branch as his playground, and anyone who disagrees with him as an obstructionist, a fool or both. In a late May meeting to discuss the President's tax credit for college tuition, Morris berated National Economic Council chief Laura Tyson for insisting that Clinton's economic team make sure the proposal...
...result is gaping holes in the spinal cord. Long nerve fibers, or axons, that originate in the brain and weave down the spinal cord, eventually connecting with other nerves that branch to muscles as distant as the toes, are torn and stripped of their protective fatty coat of myelin. The myelin sheath is like the rubber coating on electrical wire. Without it, the nerves cannot function...
They had come to see whether the Flatbush branch of the Brooklyn Public Library ought to share in a $3 million grant that would wire it to the Internet. Donald Kaplan, who works for the library system, recalls that the emissaries from Redmond, Washington, were dubious: "One of them asked, 'Will this be like the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, where a Coke bottle falls out of the sky and no one knows what to do with it?'" Kaplan shrugged off the gibe, saying, "No, it'll be like the movie Field of Dreams--build it, and they will...
...When we started doing sign-ups, it got a little hairy," says Donna Hubbard, the branch librarian. Arguments sometimes broke out. It's obvious why, she says. Half the patrons are children dying for a chance on the machines. "Most of them don't have PCs," says Hubbard. Many of the local schools don't either...