Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with big, attention-getting moves. He calls them "long bombs," the kind quarterbacks throw when nothing else is working. Gore planned to throw one last Sunday by flying to the 155-nation global-warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, where the U.S. finds itself scorned. Why was Gore planning to insert himself into a no-win situation...
...fertility drug and then switching to the more powerful Metrodin. Neither she nor Kenny wanted to wait a year this time, so she went on Metrodin right away--though, on Hauser's advice, at a lower dose. But while doctors can carefully control the number of embryos they insert with in-vitro fertilization, fertility drugs are basically a roll of the dice...
...extra days in a Petri dish. Until recently, clinicians had to put in-vitro embryos into the uterus when they were just one or two days old and relatively fragile. After that, the embryos' metabolism changes, rendering standard growth mixtures useless for nourishing them. That's why clinics insert several at once, which raises the odds of success but often produces triplets, quads and even quints...
...face. On the cover of GQ was George Clooney. Beneath his sardonically smiling face were the words of truth: "George Clooney and the Meaning of Guyness," an article by Peter Richmond. From the look of the photograph (with a little fashion savoir faire provided by a small insert), it seems that real men wear stripes, lots of them, preferably by Emporio Armani, at a total cost of somewhere in the thousand-dollar range. Incidentally, or not so incidentally, real men are also white, but that's for another time...
Exit pico, start pine and begin a new message. When you get down to the body of the message, you want to just insert the file from your home directory containing the cut-off message...