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...female condom, a polyurethane pouch which is inserted into the vaginal canal, received an FDA recommendation for marketing approval pending the fulfillment of several conditions. These include the completion of a pregnancy prevention study, development of a more accurate direction insert and further testing of used condoms for tears and leakage...

Author: By Carolyn B. Rendell, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: UHS Considers 'Female Condoms' | 2/4/1992 | See Source »

...economy is up and rolling again, with thousands of new jobs for unemployed Egyptians and East Asians. Iraq, too, is rejoining the world economy, under UN-encouraged imperialist terms. Israel is getting more American aid for its cooperation. Panama continues to be a safe money haven and the canal continues to be ours. And the other banana republics still send us all the bananas we want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symbolic Pump-Priming | 1/17/1992 | See Source »

Just after dawn on Oct. 7, we set off on the bone-shaking 15-mile drive to the base of the mountain. From there we headed out on foot across a small dam and then walked along an irrigation canal past rice paddies. Our leisurely stroll ended abruptly when the path veered off through 12-ft.-high, aptly named saw grass. But the discomfort of being hacked at by razor-sharp weeds became fond memories when the trail suddenly zoomed up the mountain at a 70 degrees incline. For almost a mile straight up, there was less a path than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expeditions: My Search for Colonel Scharf | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Bush, who won 31% of Jewish votes in 1988, plugs along. If ever he doubts that good policy is sometimes smart politics, he should recall history. Shortly before the 1956 election, Eisenhower took Egypt's side in the Suez Canal dispute. He warned Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion "not ((to)) make any grave mistake based upon ((your)) belief that winning a domestic election is as important to us as preserving the peace." Ike won in a landslide and captured 40% of the Jewish vote, still the high-water mark for a Republican. If today's peace talks produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Getting It Right with the Jewish Vote | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...April besieged an Australian division in the strategic seaside fortress of Tobruk as troops from Britain and New Zealand retreated to Egypt. Rommel called Tobruk's defenders nothing but rabble and promised that the panzers of his fabled Afrika Korps would soon be parked by the Suez Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in Europe | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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