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...Scarlett wants to get in touch with her Irish roots, and Ripley wants to get her away from the freed slaves and budding Klansmen of the Reconstruction South. Pushing a complex reality under the Old Sod solves the problem of having to create substantial roles for black characters. When hired to write the book, Ripley insisted on a contemporary treatment of race, specifically the avoidance of dialect. Her method is to retain speech patterns while providing elocution lessons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frankly, It's Not Worth a Damn | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

There are treatments for each of these conditions. Blocked Fallopian tubes can be freed or cleared of obstructions by a variety of operations, ranging from laser-beam surgery to inflating a tiny balloon within the clogged passage. Men with extremely low sperm counts can be helped toward fatherhood by artificial insemination, which puts what sperm they have directly into the cervix, or by microinjection, which puts a single sperm right into the egg. And for couples with sperm-allergy problems, a procedure known as sperm washing strips the sperm of some of the chemical antigens that trigger the allergic reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treating Infertility: Making Babies | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...BASKS IN the triumph of democracy in the Soviet Union, he is denying support to his only reliable democratic ally in the Middle East. He is shunning the ongoing effort of the U.S. and Israel to relocate Soviet Jewry. He is forgetting the miracle of Operation Solomon that successfully freed 15,000 Ethiopian Jews during the 36-hour operation...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: No Place to Go | 9/17/1991 | See Source »

...sheikh also said that he couldn't predict the nationality of the next hostage freed. Speculation has focused on Jack Mann, a 77-year-old former Royal Air Force pilot who has been missing for two years...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Cleric Urges One-Time Hostage Swap | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

Also, the English-language Tehran Times newspaper, which is close to Iran's President Hashemi Rafsanjani and has accurately predicted hostage releases before, said a Western hostage could be freed soon...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Cleric Urges One-Time Hostage Swap | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

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