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Novel approaches to babymaking seem to be coming at us so fast that we hardly have time to digest one before the next one hits--test-tube babies, egg donation, surrogacy, cloning and now sex selection. And just as with earlier methods, the new sperm-separation technique announced last week has triggered plenty of ethical concern. Only a few critics have argued that tampering with nature to avoid a sex-linked genetic disease should be taboo. But plenty have expressed misgivings about using the new technology more casually, to balance families, or simply because parents prefer boys or girls. Such...
...your guest has egg on his face, what's the polite thing to do? Splash some on your own -- which may be Boris Yeltsin's thinking as he awaits President Clinton's September 1 visit. Russia's leader returned to his month-long vacation Tuesday, while his country reeled under the shock of Monday's ruble devaluation. "Should the latest package fail to stem the crisis, Russia's political establishment will be totally discredited," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "They have too often claimed to have found a way out of their economic woes, only...
Remember Horton the elephant? One day he stumbles upon Mayzie, a bird who has no interest in hatching her egg. After coaxing Horton to mount a tree and sit upon her nest, she vanishes. As events unfold in Dr. Seuss's whimsical Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton sits resolutely, unbudged by jeers, inclement weather or nasty humans, who cart him off, tree and all, to be a sideshow in a circus. When Mayzie happens by Horton's tent and sees that most of the work is done, she demands her egg back. Just then, the egg cracks open...
...fact drunk coffee at McDonald's. Then it turned out the operative words were eaten at, for he'd eaten Big Macs at a catered party with congressional Republicans. And he had told a group of White House visitors in 1994 that "we love to have Egg McMuffins on Sunday mornings." But listen: the statement stands...
...billion over 10 years.) So far so good. But saving Social Security means making hard choices--moving part of the trust fund into the risky, higher-return stock market; allowing individuals to oversee their own private investment accounts, which means allowing them to risk losing their nest egg; cutting benefits, raising taxes or trimming other parts of government. The battle begins at a White House summit in December, with legislation to follow next year. Since a handful of congressional Democrats agree with Republican calls for private accounts, it may be possible for Clinton to get bipartisan support by going along...