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...California at Irvine (UCI). She and her husband thought their travail had finally ended when, in 1989, she gave birth to twins. Then last month they received a letter from the Jorges' lawyer demanding that the boy and girl undergo genetic testing. "We do not want to unduly disrupt your lives," the letter read without intended irony, "but rather to help facilitate a relationship between my clients and the children." Trembling with rage, the wife told the Orange County Register, "I don't want to talk about it. These were my eggs...
...markets, economic growth projections for 1996 have been downgraded from 6.52 percent to 6.36 percent. "If this drags on, Taiwan will lose its competitive edge of market stability, and in a way that is Beijing's ultimate message," FlorCruz says. "China doesn't have to invade Taiwan to disrupt its peaceful environment. Investors will be jitterish. Markets will be wobbly. No economy can absorb such a protracted beating." Taiwan had been hit by economic problems before the crisis with China began last summer. The highly speculative real estate market was hit by a string of collapses and bounced checks, affecting...
...stood for a healthy relationship with the United States in economic, political, military and trade fields." Jaime A. FlorCruz, TIME Beijing bureau chief, says China wants to take the tests as far as it can without precipitating a military response from the United States. "Beijing's goal is to disrupt the normal life in Taiwan -- specifically the stock markets and foreign exchange -- and make people blame President Lee Teng-hui," FlorCruz says. "China is serving a warning to Taiwan that it better change its direction or otherwise it will have no peace of mind." The tests are scheduled...
...with Penn, Harvard will also try to disrupt Princeton's inside game: one of the Tigers' greatest strengths...
...about other inhabited worlds was one reason philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600. Belief that mankind has a special relationship with God is central to the monotheistic religions. The existence of alien beings, especially if they were further advanced than humans intellectually and spiritually, would disrupt this cozy view...