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...scholarships. The problem, according to youth-voter advocates and the IRS, was that these dire warnings were incorrect. After widespread outrage, the registrars backed off. But experts worry that the resulting confusion could sour first timers on voting altogether. "It's creating somewhat of a chilling effect," says Steve Fenberg, executive director of the youth civic action group New Era Colorado...
...fenberg, Ernst, a German gynecologist and sex researcher...
Silk to Silver. The man who did most to demonstrate the effectiveness of IUCDS did not live to see the dawn of the new age that he pioneered. German Gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg, born in 1881, began inserting rings in the wombs of his patients in the 1920s. He first used rings made of surgical silk, but soon switched to silver wire. The insertion of wire required dilatation of the cervix, but Dr. Gräfenberg reported few complications and fewer unwanted pregnancies. Yet when other doctors decided to follow his example, there were many complaints-mainly excessive bleeding...
Research went on elsewhere. The late Dr. Willi Oppenheimer of Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, who began working on the devices in 1930, thought that something like the gut used in surgical sutures would be less likely than metal to cause bad reactions. He went back to Gräfenberg's rings made from the surgical silk. His 329 patients had a few unwanted pregnancies, but no miscarriages and no malformed babies. There were no cases of permanent sterility, and no diseases, including cancer, that could be attributed to the ring. In Yokohama, Dr. Atsumi Ishihama recorded a total...
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