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Alexander Morgan Capron, a sandy-haired professor of law at Georgetown University, stood at a blackboard in a hearing room of Congress's Rayburn Office Building and began writing formulas: the symbols represented ten different ways of making babies. The fourth formula that he chalked up read XM & YD by AΙ with Gestation M, meaning that a married woman is artificially inseminated by a male donor's sperm. The fifth formula, XD & YM by IVF with Gestation M, meant that the beginnings of life could be created through the uniting in a laboratory dish (invitro fertilization...
Reagan's kooky budget formula prolonged and deepened the recession and produced huge deficits. Reagan has had an unusual number of nincompoops working for his Administration. His insensitivities to the poor are monumental. His opposition to abortion and support for school prayer smack of zealotry. He still cannot comprehend the feminists. His beloved military wastes money hand over fist. But these are secondary issues. Those qualities of the spirit that Reagan so relentlessly thunders from the White House are what free and self-governing societies run on. It may yet be written in the history books that the genius...
...nature's most coveted secrets, and over the centuries many have professed to know it. Aristotle had a surefire formula: make love in the north wind to conceive a male child and in the south wind for a girl. Hippocrates had his own prescription-tie a string around the right testicle to stimulate the production of male seed, or the left, if a daughter is sought. Medieval alchemists had an even more exotic recipe for a son: a precoital drink of lion's blood and intercourse under a full moon...
Still, the fundamental formula is remarkably unchanged. Just as in earlier times, there are tools, furniture, appliances and gardening equipment. A woman 87 years ago could have bought half a dozen sterling-silver forks for $10.85. Today her great-granddaughter can pick up a 20-piece set in stainless steel for $14.99. Refined versions of the old puffery remain: "Where else would you find such a wide selection of colors and such an incredible value?" reads an ad for women's shoes...
Congressional pensions are based on a formula that takes into account the length of service and the average of the recipient's three highest-salaried years; generous cost of living increases bloat benefits further...