Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Hillary Clinton sat down to write her first book, it became an instant best seller. Her audiotape narration even won a Grammy. And of course the title, It Takes a Village, entered the vernacular. The President wasn't quite so fortunate. When he wrote his first book in office, Between Hope and History, it went straight to the remainder bins...
...turns out the President's second effort at matching his wife's success is faring even worse than the first one. His latest literary adventure is nearly a year past its original due date, and has been buffeted by bureaucratic wrangling within the White House. A 400-page, ghostwritten draft of the text, which focuses on race in America, sits stuck in his In box. The topic is one that Clinton cares deeply about and is supremely qualified to examine. Tentatively titled Out of Many, One, the book aims to offer the President's personal vision of future racial...
...HEAD FIRST Reassurance for moms-to-be: about a year after concerns were raised about a link between vacuum-assisted deliveries and injury to a baby's brain, a new study has deemed the procedure relatively safe--i.e., at least as safe as other emergency interventions. After poring over the records of 500,000 births, researchers conclude that vacuum deliveries--using a suction cup-like device that coaxes the baby out--are associated with bleeding into a baby's brain in just 0.1% of cases, about the same rate as caesarean and forceps deliveries...
...house, horizontal and vertical, is covered with something--photographs or plaques; framed programs from the 1992 christening of the U.S.S. John S. McCain, a guided-missile destroyer named after both his father and grandfather; a model train designed after the full-size one McCain used to win his first Senate victory, complete with a tiny version of him with a shock of white hair at the back of the caboose. And there are three bricks from the Hanoi Hilton, the prison where McCain spent a part of his POW years...
...growth, prosperity and upward living standards always entail some dislocation. A century ago, they tried to destroy the satanic mills of industrializing Europe. Today they want to stop the global redistribution of labor, in which previously starving Third World peasants get their start with low-paying industrial jobs while First World workers shift to the more antiseptic high-skill information economy...