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Medical and ethical debate over liberalized abortion laws has centered on the woman and the unborn child. A byproduct of legal abortions, however, can affect the vital interests of a third party: a desperately ill youngster who can be helped by a transplant from an aborted fetus. Such operations are still rare. But Dr. Arthur Ammann of the University of California's San Francisco Medical Center has performed two gland transplants that may encourage increasing use of fetal tissue...
Until recently, if the father got custody of the children in a divorce case, most onlookers concluded that the mother had done something pretty dreadful. No longer. Divorce lawyers and family experts around the country are reporting a new byproduct of Women's Lib: the growing tendency of courts to give custody to fathers...
During a study of air pollution, Caltech's Claire Patterson decided to investigate the historical worldwide distribution of lead. Knowing that lead was obtained in ancient times as a byproduct of silver mining, he made a study of silver mining and stockpile records and discovered a significant fact: accidental loss diminishes a country's stock of silver at a rapid rate unless the metal is continually replenished from mines. Rome's silver, much of it used for coins, was abraded by handling, lost by corrosion and reworking, covered by soil or ashes, sunk in shipwrecks or buried...
...educators, a go-slow mood has been given fresh rationale by academic research showing no automatic relationship between money spent on schools and students' performance on standard achievement tests. For the time being, a new emphasis on finding out what really works may be the only really beneficial byproduct of the squeeze...
Dubious Material. Classification is a byproduct of America's rise to world power. As the U.S. made its far-flung commitments in World War II, secret military information began to accumulate. The cold war speeded up the process. In 1953 President Eisenhower tried to straighten out the classification chaos by issuing an executive order. It broke down classification into three categories that are still used today: top secret, secret and confidential. Top secret is intended to cover information whose disclosure would result in "exceptionally grave damage to the nation." This means revealing critical military or defense plans or secret...