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...well past middle age, allowing them to marry later, choose their partners with less reproductive urgency, even undergo body-wide traumas like chemotherapy--all the while knowing that a few eggs, banked years earlier, were preserving their ability to bear children. The very idea of menopause as a procreative cul de sac could be made obsolete. "This," says Dr. Joe Massey, a scientist who helped develop the technique, "stretches the reproductive field as far as you can envision...
...good deal more concrete than Seltzer suggested. The U.S. was in the midst of a postwar upheaval tearing tens of millions of us loose from the moorings of generations. From the agrarian South to the industrial North, from Frostbelt to Sunbelt, from the city street to the suburban cul-de-sac, a boundless prosperity was luring us to new places far from family and the old neighborhood...
...beige ranch house was in a hushed cul-de-sac on the eastern edge of Los Angeles -- not exactly where you would expect to see half a dozen sheriff's deputies in bulletproof vests, pistols at the ready. The gray-haired Chinese man who answered the door last Tuesday soon found himself handcuffed next to an associate, facedown on the floor, while the police searched the sparsely furnished home...
Today online sex is as wild and far-ranging as the human imagination -- a real Twilight Zone of the Id, which causes one to reflect on whether or not the human race is indeed an evolutionary cul-de-sac, until you remember that cybersex has been going on since humans received the gift of imagination. Cybersex is, at bottom, simply old sexual fantasies in a new electronic bottle. As with all other new mediums, online draws its energy from the same two timeless topics: radical politics and sexual fantasy. They are the first uses made of any new means...
...show other restive nationalities what happens to secessionists, Yeltsin decided to slap down the Chechens. He thought it would be easy to whip the backward province of 1.2 million into line and earn himself a much needed boost in popularity. Instead he marched his army into a humiliating, bloody cul...