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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fetus, its already human form visible through a transparent amniotic sac, fills the screen. These spectacular images (see following pages) are not the products of a Hollywood special effects department. They are frames from a half-hour film that dramatically shows the actual process of conception and the earliest stages of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Beginning of Life | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

While the committee's general course now seems clearer, its timetable has slipped badly. Originally, it had hoped to complete its work by the end of April; now late August seems the earliest possible period for sending its report to the House. That would still allow the House ample time in the current session to either approve or reject articles of impeachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Nixon's Date with the Supreme Court | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...hybrid rather than inbred species as he had claimed. Thus it was genetically compatible with the animal whose skin it had received, and the fact that the graft took was somewhat less than remarkable. The committee also raised questions about Summerlin's interpretation of some of his earliest attempts to transplant skin between humans. In three of five patients Summerlin treated, the graft has since been rejected; in the two others, it appears too early to tell if the new tissue will take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The S.K.I. Affair (Contd.) | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...deal, with U.S. participation, sewed up too. If that can be done, the Soviets could start receiving Japanese mining and foresting machinery by September. Siberian timber could start moving to Japan as early as this fall, coal by 1979 and natural gas some time in the 1980s at the earliest. If the September deadline is not met, the loan will not be made, and Japanese-Soviet economic cooperation will still be mired in Siberian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: A Loan in Siberia | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...hillside covered with olive trees and scrub oak, it was discovered in 1962 by a little girl looking for shiny stones for her collection. What subsequent explorers of the 16-ft. by 16-ft. grotto have found promises to be a great deal more significant: the habitat of the earliest known manlike creatures ever to dwell in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Cradle and the Cave | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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