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...going through a counterrevolution," says Richard Lincoln of New York City's Alan Guttmacher Institute. "We're moving backwards." Reason for the retreat: consumers' health worries and manufacturers' concerns about spiraling liability claims. Last January the IUD was nearly eliminated from the American market when G.D. Searle discontinued the Copper-7 and the Tatum-T. Defending just four Copper-7 liability suits cost the firm $1.5 million in legal fees, even though it won the cases. Sales of the Copper-7 amounted to only $11 million in 1985. A.H. Robins, the marketer of the Dalkon Shield, fared worse. After...
Between the two sections of the ship, the Woods Hole scientists found a large debris field littered with artifacts: a copper kettle polished by sand particles in the deep-sea currents; three of the ship's safes; a porcelain doll's head; a patent-leather shoe. Most of the ship's woodwork had been devoured by marine creatures. Amid the debris were at least four of the Titanic's huge boilers; an unbroken porcelain coffee cup rested on one of them. Says Ballard: "It must have fluttered down like a leaf and settled on the boiler, which had come crashing...
While one diver, armed with a hammer and chisel, began chipping away around a copper ingot, trying to loosen it from concreted sediment, another culled the bottom, scooping sand with one hand and drawing it into a suction tube held in the other. Suddenly, something metallic flashed in the dim light filtering through the water. It was a piece of gold jewelry that had remained hidden from sight for 34 centuries. In the next several minutes, the team members uncovered more jewelry, a quartz bead, broken arrowheads and pottery shards, which they stored in a red-and-white plastic container...
Babbitt's politics are difficult to label, which could be a virtue for a Democrat seeking national office these days. When he called out the National Guard to quell a violent 1983 contract dispute in Arizona's copper industry, Babbitt stirred suspicions among some liberal Democrats that he is a closet Republican. A critic of government entitlement programs spawned by Democratic lawmakers, Babbitt proposes that most government benefits, from Social Security to farm subsidies, be "means tested." That idea, even when coupled with a pledge of support for the family farm, did not endear Babbitt to some of Iowa...
...Statue of Liberty is a sculpted symbol of freedom, an icon of democracy clothed in copper and iron. But the idea of Liberty Weekend for most people was simply to have fun, to watch ships passing under the sun and fireworks blossoming under the stars, to feel good about themselves because they felt good about their country, to feel proud of being proud...