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...Brown, 34, mother of the first "test tube" baby, and John Brown, 42, a truck driver: their second child, a girl; in Bristol, England. Name: Natalie Jane. Weight: 5 lbs. 12 oz. Like Louise, her healthy sister, who will be four next month, Natalie was conceived in a Petri dish by doctors uniting mother's egg and father's sperm. About 30 children have been born through the same technique; the Browns are the first couple to have a second separately implanted child...
...world as a pasta consumer; Italians down some 60 Ibs. each annually. Virtually every city of any size has specialty stores selling freshly made pasta, as well as hard durum wheat flour for knead-it-yourselfers, and imported cheeses, sauces, oils, olives and herbs to anoint each dish. A sophisticated caterer can offer whole pasta dinners, starting with pisarei e fasoi (bean soup with gnocchi and prosciutto) through bigoli all'anitra (Venetian wheat pasta with poached duck) and baked spaghetti pie with cinnamon-flavored cream and eggs for dessert. Pasta cookbooks are churned out with dizzying regularity. Mostly written...
...health boom has undoubtedly helped to popularize the Italian national dish. Some nutritionists consider it a diet food. Despite the Italian maxim Quel che non ammazza ingrassa (What doesn't kill you fattens you), plain pasta contains no more calories than rice or potatoes. It has protein, phosphorus, calcium, niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, iron and potassium, but is low in sodium...
Even allowing for some exaggeration, it was plain that the engagement was a disaster for Iraq. Dozens of burned-out Soviet-built tanks and hundreds of armored vehicles Uttered the flatlands, many mired in sand softened by March rains. A charred radar dish was draped with a poster of Khomeini and banners that proclaimed GOD is GREAT! Fired by religious fervor and a belief in the rightness of their cause, Iranian soldiers have proved to be a far more potent fighting force than Saddam Hussein expected. "When you believe in God, you win," said a young fighter pilot who, like...
...opportunities to spend money on recreation, miners are able to spend a lot on flashy cars and extravagant homes. Robert M. Duncan, chief executive officer of Martin County's only bank, says that in one recent week his bank gave more loans for back-yard T.V. satellite dish receivers than for everything else combined...