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...conceive. The new findings suggest that these women may be infertile not because their uteruses are too old but because their ovaries . are, and that with eggs donated by younger women their chances of getting pregnant may be as good as those of the young women themselves. The hitch is, of course, that the children developing from such eggs have the genes of the female donor and are genetically unrelated to the mother who bears them -- a fact that presents both legal and ethical problems as yet unresolved...
There is only one hitch--about 132 red squirrels...
Born Stanley Kirk Burrell, he picked up his stage moniker from A's players who noticed his resemblance to home-run king Hammerin' Hank Aaron (the M.C., added later, stands for Master of Ceremonies, rapspeak for band leader). After a two-year hitch in the Navy, Hammer borrowed some start-up cash from a couple of A's outfielders to launch Bustin' Records. He couldn't play an instrument, and he sang with more enthusiasm than finesse, but his first album, 1988's Let's Get It Started, produced three Top 10 singles. And those hits have just kept...
...products make more trash than yesterday's newspapers. Thus when New York's Suffolk County last week approved a bill requiring newspapers to use paper with a 40% recycled content by the end of 1996, the intent was unassailable. But there is a hitch: not enough mills are reprocessing the newsprint that readers already send to recycling centers...
...needed to awaken top party and local leaders to the dangers of internal divisions, hard-liners are offering a one-hour video titled Eastern Europe in Turmoil. According to one viewer, the tape is designed "to make local Communist officials realize that if in a crisis they fail to hitch a line to the Communist boat, they will all sink together -- like Ceausescu...