Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prevent such abuses, doctors and ethicists suggest banning the sale of fetal tissue worldwide and prohibiting women from designating who would receive their fetus' organs. Once such safeguards are in place, however, they believe that physicians can properly use tissue from abortuses for research and treatment. Except in the case of miscarriages, Dr. John Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee, vehemently disagrees. "The abuse is not in the sale of those tissues," he says, "but in killing the baby in the first place." Janice Raymond, professor of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...
...real tragedy of all this fury is that neither side is any closer to settling the violent struggle for the same cherished rocks and hills. Israelis and Palestinians, except for the extremists among them, know that only a political compromise can end the agony. But neither side possesses the courage to begin. And so the Palestinians seem destined to continue futilely flinging stones, while the Israelis remain committed to fighting back with bullets. And time keeps slipping away...
...terms of the presidential caucuses, there are, in effect, two Iowas. Big Iowa -- the state of 2.8 million people and 1.5 million registered voters -- is almost irrelevant, except as a scenic backdrop for campaign commercials and TV sound bites. All that matters is Little Iowa, a mythical state with a population smaller than Alaska's, a tiny political universe of roughly 110,000 Republicans and 100,000 Democrats likely to attend the caucuses on a cold Monday night in February. The rub, of course, is that the residents of Little Iowa are inconveniently sprinkled across...
...average of 1,000 a week. Spiegelman's tale is a hellish metaphor for history; Miller's is an evocation of pop apocalypse. Spiegelman draws simply, with calculated primitivism, while Miller is a boisterous stylist whose pictures dazzle, pummel, streak past the eye. The books have nothing in common except their success and a term that has been coined to describe them and others that are breaking off the newsstands and comic specialty shops and invading bookstores: graphic novels...
...army, he will postpone or cancel the voting. From Port-au-Prince to Washington, virtually everybody seems to discount the possibility of a fair contest. Says a politician who ran for the Senate two months ago but refuses to participate this time: "There is nothing certain about these elections except that they will be a sham...