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...birth of the world's first "donor-egg baby" in November, which was announced last week by scientists in Australia, marks a new step in overcoming infertility. Declared Gynecologist Wayne Decker, executive director of the Fertility Research Foundation of New York: "It is a remarkable and astounding feat that offers hope to all women who suffer from ovarian failure or who have had their ovaries removed...
...plies his trade in the hills of Spain until he learns of a reward for anyone who can exorcise the ghost from a forbidding castle. The sprite can overwhelm anything except innocence, and Esteban not only survives but prevails. Together, he and the ghost recover some stolen treasure, a feat that lands one in paradise and the other on the Iberian version of Easy Street. Dirk Zimmer's illustrations have the amiable quality of cartoons; the only people likely to be disturbed by this refreshing tale are those who wonder where they mislaid their sense of humor...
Yasser Arafat, the Houdini of Middle East politics, appeared ready to perform yet another remarkable feat. Last year the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization managed to escape from Beirut with more than 6,000 of his commandos after the Israelis had captured a third of Lebanon and surrounded all of his positions. This year Arafat and his loyalists had held on for three weeks in the vicinity of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli as a vastly larger force of P.L.O. rebels, strongly backed by Syria, tried to drive the Arafat faction into the sea. The chairman...
...ever there were a year when the Harvard squad seemed capable of that mindboggling feat, none seems better than--exactamundo--this...
...easy to draw a straight line between Lebanon and Grenada. Yet both President Reagan and his critics have managed the feat. For the President, what connects the two points is a malevolent Soviet presence that seeks to turn trouble into opportunity. For the critics it is a trigger-happy, blustering President who turns diplomatic problems into snooting wars...