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...many couples, deciding whether to sacrifice some of their children to save the others would pose an agonizing moral dilemma. For Bobbi, 29, and Kenny, 27, it was a no-brainer. As deeply religious Baptists, they are utterly opposed to abortion. "That just wasn't an option," Kenny told reporters last week. "We were trusting in the Lord for the outcome." By conventional medical standards, the McCaugheys were taking a huge gamble; by their own, they were simply living their faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEPTUPLETS: IT'S A MIRACLE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...reconcile the moral dilemma of shared toothpaste with my ingrained compulsive ways? I ask my roommates for help. "Give it up," they say. Is it that easy? They begin a training program that includes jumping on my bed daily, borrowing my clothes and using my soap. "We'll cure you in no time," they assure me confidently, scattering dust bunnies around the room. I cringe at first; such annoying girls! What horrible friends! I question the health of our relationship. But the dirty life becomes easier with each passing day, and the state of my room and the germ level...

Author: By Bonnie Tsui, | Title: BrushWorks | 11/26/1997 | See Source »

...Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng Friday, at his first press conference since arriving in the U.S. The U.S. media did not have quite the same patience, however. CNN for one cut away to the Iowa septuplets within minutes of Wei?s starting to speak. And this may illustrate Wei?s dilemma as a Chinese dissident in exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fifteen Seconds of Fame | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...chapters brimming with anecdotal evidence of the author's familiarity with the innermost workings of cyberspace, both as we know it and as Dyson predicts it shall be. Subjects range from the structure of the Net and its usefulness in binding citizens into communities, to the ever-present dilemma of governance and regulation within the electronic realm...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: How I Stopped Fretting and Learned to Love the Net | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...plotting as if it were a fine port. Bonham Carter has always had the intense stare of a schoolgirl over her maths, but now her face is filled with midnight radiance. Without raising her voice, she suggests that Kate has a passion of near tragic scope. It is the dilemma of a clever woman whose career, in a prefeminist society, can only be one of sexual intrigue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ALL HAIL TO HELENA! | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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