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...while working for the Red Cross during World War I. "Everything I know about myself had to leave," says the exuberant Bullock of playing the reserved Agnes von Kurowsky. "That's why I did it." Plus she learned all that nurses knew in 1918. "Everything from making an egg cream to amputating a limb," she says...
Parental intervention can still save some of these barely visible blobs of protoplasm, and last week a few did get last-minute reprieves. But despite the best efforts of clinic officials, the majority of these "parents"--couples who had donated egg and sperm in an attempt at in-vitro fertilization (IVF)--cannot or will not be located. Without word from the parents within five years, British law requires that the embryos be destroyed. And so, after last-ditch appeals to the courts and Prime Minister John Major failed, the clinics began dumping the eggs and embryos like so much abandoned...
...sort are routinely destroyed in small batches every week, as they have been since the 1980s. The term embryo, moreover, carries an emotional charge that may be misleading. These entities consist of a handful of cells, the very earliest stages of the nine-month process that turns a fertilized egg into a full-term baby. They were frozen only a few days at most after conception; they would not even merit the designation fetus until after three months in the womb. "You can't regard these as little people," says Robert Forman, clinical director of the London Gynecology and Fertility...
...shortest foot race in the Olympics, the longest running and the most fabled. It has belonged to Harold Abrahams, Jesse Owens, Bob Hayes, Carl Lewis, Wilma Rudolph and Flo-Jo, not to mention a man named Stella. Ever since Antwerp in 1920, when Charley Paddock gulped down a raw egg in a glass of sherry and defeated five rivals with a time of 10.8 sec., the winner has been declared "the world's fastest human." Basically, the race is 10 sec. that last a lifetime. Adding to its allure for the 1996 Centennial Games is the convergence of time...
British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind is fond of comparing the conflict over security to the "Chicken or the Egg" paradox. For Netanyahu, though, there is simply no disputing whether peace or security must come first. Netanyahu makes the compelling argument that the only peace that can ever be honored, the only "just and lasting peace" or "peace of the brave" is a peace that is premised first and foremost on security. If the previous government's philosophy was "peace is our only security," Netanyahu can be relied upon to demonstrate that Israeli hopes for peace depend upon security first...