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Going Against the Grain...
...most important thing that happened last week was that science changed sides and put its power to work for the pro-choice team as well. The abortion pill shifts the focus from the latest stage of pregnancy to the earliest, when the entire embryo is the size of a grain of rice. For abortion-rights activists scarred by five years of fighting over "partial birth" abortions, that is where they prefer the public debate to take place...
Another month, another celebrity on the cover of Playboy. November's model, however, is a bit outside the usual aging-B-actress-desperately-trying-to-jump-start-a-sagging-career paradigm. "I go against the grain of everything our society says is beautiful," says CHYNA, ne Joanie Laurer, the 6-ft., 200-lb. World Wrestling Federation star. "I've always had a hard time with that. Believe me, it's tough to be called ugly--or a man." Chyna approached Playboy with the idea of a pictorial, but it took some convincing. "I give kudos to Hugh Hefner...
...rest of the heat is conveyed as energy in the storms that move north from the tropics. If the poles continue to warm faster than the tropics, the vigor of this planetary circulatory system may diminish, radically altering prevailing winds, ocean currents and rainfall patterns. One consequence: grain production in the breadbaskets of the U.S. and Canada could be in jeopardy if rainfall becomes less steady and predictable. Already, severe and unpredictable storms across the northern hemisphere may be a sign that the global system is changing...
...GRAIN OF HOPE--AND FEAR...