Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...testify about everything from retained fetal parts-one type of abortion malpractice-to "postabortion trauma,'' a form of emotional harm that L.D.I. lawsuits hope to establish in case law. Life Dynamics also offers the services of 8,000 "Spies for Life"-moles who use a variety of methods to collect information about abortion clinics. L.D.I. has a computer data base on abortion providers and is working on computer-generated 3-D animation that will dramatically illustrate botched abortions for juries and judges...
...said for Lauer and Postman's detection of large-scale motions across the universe. Most scientists are betting that their observation is just plain wrong, but they haven't yet been able to pinpoint why. And both Lauer and Postman admit that the effect may wash out as they collect more data from deeper in space...
Although the holy water containers look suspiciously like travel shampoo bottles, and the "Collect `em, Trade `em, Save `em Saints Cards" might be better if they included bubble gum, the management says it doesn't see any compromising contradictions...
...than the diplomatic corps. For the past four years, the CIA has been quietly expanding its NOC program, placing undercover officers in U.S. businesses that operate overseas. The reason is simple. During the cold war, CIA case officers under embassy cover could cruise foreign ministries and cocktail parties to collect intelligence on the Soviet Union. But, as last week's arrest of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef showed, drug traffickers, terrorists, nuclear smugglers, money launderers and regional warlords aren't found on the diplomatic circuit. To penetrate the new threat, unconventional covers are needed. Indeed, President Clinton's newly nominated CIA spymaster...
Collectors are crazy, a little or a lot--gently mad or glittery-eyed gaga. Nuttiness is the only sane explanation for wanting to possess every matchbook cover or baseball card ever printed or for paying $47 million to own a Van Gogh. Or trying to collect every fact in the space-time continuum by memorizing an encyclopedia or deciding to experience one of every kind of lover...