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Which of these or half a dozen other procedures a specialist will call upon depends largely on the reason a patient or couple is infertile. For Anita and Vincent Bielicki, both Chicago police officers, the problem was in Vincent's sperm. Before turning to more elaborate measures, the couple tried several courses of therapy, in which Anita took ovulation-stimulating drugs (a la Bobbi McCaughey) and fertilization was to occur inside the body...
...Daily Princetonian quoted Fred A. Hargadon, Princeton's dean of admissions, as saying that the school received "one or two dozen more applicants than last year," when the school received 1,600 early applications...
...students beat such a hasty retreat? The Cult Hotline and Clinic in New York City has received a dozen complaints from family members concerned about their relatives' overzealous commitment to the center. Students often spend Jewish holidays with Berg; a few become hevra, volunteers who live and work at center facilities. "My husband took our daughters there," says a Long Island, N.Y., homemaker. "My eight-year-old said, 'When you look into Rabbi Berg's eyes, you see his soul, and he's beautiful.' I ask you, is that normal?" Their marriage fell apart after her husband insisted on spending...
...dissolve Russian, French and Chinese opposition to the use of force--and give America a reason to pull the trigger. To deliver that punch, a formidable armada was assembling: the carriers Nimitz and George Washington (which began steaming in from the Mediterranean last Friday), backed by more than a dozen cruisers, destroyers, guided-missile frigates and attack subs capable of delivering 100 strike planes and 600 cruise and air-to-air missiles. "This sends an unambiguous message that the power is here should the U.N. want to use it," says the commanding officer of the Nimitz, Captain Isaac Richardson. Clinton...
Changing from the satirical to the serious, Rogers then led the audience of more than two dozen undergraduates, medical students and doctors in a discussion about managed care...