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...link to mothers may help explain a conundrum: If homosexuality is hereditary, why doesn't the trait gradually disappear, as gays and lesbians are probably less likely than others to have children? The answer suggested by the new research is that genes for male homosexuality can be carried and passed to children by heterosexual women, and those genes do not cause the women to be homosexual. A similar study of lesbians by Hamer's team is taking longer to complete because the existence and chromosomal location of responsible genes is not as obvious as it is in men. But preliminary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born Gay? | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...frontier is heavy and the guards are busy, crowds of hopeful immigrants from Eastern Europe creep out of the woods and doorways where they have spent the night. Men, women and children straggle into the square to rendezvous with their "tour guides," the smugglers who will help them disappear into the West -- for fees ranging from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Slams the Door | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...independent nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina is about to disappear. Her ravenous Serb and Croat neighbors are closing in for the kill. The future of Bosnia's mainly Muslim population--if it has any--remains to be seen...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Where Have We Gone on Bosnia? | 6/29/1993 | See Source »

...miracle drug: the protesters disappear. So do the signs, the fetus. Why? Because the clinic, too, is gone, replaced by the privacy of thousands of anonymous doctors' offices. That, say some, is the elementary physics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: But Will It End the Abortion Debate? | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...Harvard men left for overseas duty, as Radcliffe women joined the services and as the standard maid service began to disappear, it became clear that even the Ivory Tower was not immune to the turbulence of the times...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, | Title: The Last Dance | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

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