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...parents are women, both because courts are more apt to award custody to mothers and because of the lesbian baby boom. Gay men are increasingly seeking to join them. Tim Fisher lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his longtime lover Scott Davenport and their daughter Kari, 3, and son Fritz, 1. The children, biologically Fisher's, were conceived via surrogate mothers. Fisher is a stay-at-home dad: "I didn't just want to become a parent. I wanted a family. I wanted the hands-on experience." Davenport admits, "I was skeptical. But becoming parents is a very natural outcome...
...flood of 1993. "There was an eerie normality to life in Des Moines," she says. "With Guardsmen patrolling the empty streets, humidity oppressive and helicopters circling in the sky, it seemed like a M*A*S*H episode." TIME's photographers -- Steve Liss, Ron Haviv, Najlah Feanny and Fritz Hoffmann -- were scouring the area to capture such scenes on film...
...wants all roads to lead to its electronic superhighway," says Fritz Ringling, a telecommunications consultant at Network Dynamics in New York City. "It wants Johnny in Atlanta to play Sega video games with his cousin in Seattle; Mom to use the Universal card and have her purchases rung up on an NCR cash register that uses an AT&T fax to transmit credit-verification data; and Dad to send messages to his office while he's out on a sales call using his AT&T hand-held computer." AT&T also intends to be a main source for the ; pocket...
Dark matter was first postulated in the 1930s by the astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky, who observed that galaxies in the far-off Coma cluster were whirling around one another faster than the laws of physics would allow. They should by rights have been flung out into deep space, unless, as Zwicky contended, the gravity from some massive, invisible substance was holding them in. For decades the idea was rejected as too bizarre. "It smacked of angels dancing on the head of a pin," recalls theoretical physcist Joel Primack of the University of California at Santa Cruz...
...discovery in World War I that scientific advances had also produced better engines of death and destruction turned speculation about the future excessively sour. Bellamy's radiant city became the high-tech slave societies of Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We and Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis. Aldous Huxley perfected the notion of dystopia in 1932 with Brave New World, and George Orwell weighed in with his haunting classic...