Word: braved
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Perhaps the men's movement is a very American exercise anyway: it has that quality of Americans' making fools of themselves in brave pop quests for salvation that may be descendants of the religious revivals that used to sweep across the landscape every generation or so in the 18th and 19th centuries. The men's movement belongs as well to the habits of the '60s baby boomers, who tend to perceive their problems and seek their solutions as a tribe...
...bothers them, but they've been brave...
...brave, surreal gamble. First, Abe had to have his vasectomy surgically reversed, a procedure with a success rate of just 40%. That done, Mary Ayala ventured to become pregnant at the age of 43. The odds were 1 in 4 that the baby's bone marrow would match her sister's. The Ayalas won that gamble too. In April 1990 Mary bore a daughter, Marissa. Fetal stem cells were extracted from the umbilical cord and frozen for use along with the marrow in last week's transplant. Then everyone waited for the optimum moment -- the baby had to grow...
...mere organic function for the transmission of the germ of life would be to convert the domestic hearth, sanctuary of the family, into nothing more than a biological laboratory." When Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in England in July 1978, alarmists warned of a brave new world in which government would control the production of children...
...agency's agenda seems bare except for what one Congresswoman described recently as an empty garage. Forty billion dollars is too much for a space station that does nothing -- not when there are real adventures and real science on which to spend the money. Commenting on the brave new do-nothing space station, John Logsdon, a space policy analyst at George Washington University, said that canceling the space station would be an admission that NASA has wasted billions of dollars and years of planning. It would, he explained, destroy the credibility of the space program. Of course, exactly the opposite...