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Preparing for junior's arrival raises a diaper load of questions: Bottle or nipple? Thumb or pacifier? Cloth or disposable? For answers, just click on BabyCenter.com a new Website for parents-to-be with a due-date calculator and tips from baby doc T. Berry Brazelton. Best of all: the baby-namer database of 5,000 given names, from Anglo-Saxon to Yoruban, searchable by gender, origin and popularity. A Gaelic name that starts with B? No problem: Blaine. Here's hoping your Yoruban baby isn't Aina: a "complicated delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Nov. 17, 1997 | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...Erie Street resident reported that at 11:40 a.m. an unknown person or persons entered his apartment, cut a table cloth, and stole a Spanish book...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Log of Police Activity | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

...targeted. The Jordanian-based political chief of the radical Palestinian group Hamas was walking from his car to his office in Amman when two pedestrians passed close by. Meshal's driver and bodyguard, Mohammed Abu Saif, though, saw one of the men put some kind of device wrapped in cloth up to Meshal's head. And so Abu Saif jumped into the car, caught up to the two and fought them viciously until a passing police patrol arrested all three. The driver's story seemed so unlikely--Meshal appeared to be unharmed--that at first the episode was dismissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A HIT GONE WRONG | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

Sure, he knows there will soon be more than a few people who will start to recognize him around town. (Especially after the world has seen him on the big screen wearing nothing but a loin cloth.) But Ashong definitively resists the label of "movie star," and not just because he's modest...

Author: By Brendan H. Gibbon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Harvard To Hollywood...(And Back Again) | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...cure for pterygium, an eye affliction common to the tropics in which vision gradually becomes obscured as a layer of tissue encroaches over the cornea. The traditional cure used by healers is leaves of Centella asiatica, a ground-hugging vine, which Salome chews into a poultice, smears on a cloth and then places as a compress on the afflicted eye for three consecutive nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PLANT HUNTER | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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