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...noon on Saturday, I squeezed my way into the enemy stands, my Crimson hat intact and only a press pass preventing possible attacks. Like Dustin Hoffman in the upcoming movie "Mad City," I was a journalist in a precarious position, abusing my privileges to snag some juicy quotes...
...late Hollywood actress and Hitchcock muse, Grace Kelly. In this tiny Mediterranean country the size of New York City's Central Park, to be Monegasque is to lead a tax-and-crime-free life. Monegasques appreciate the fact that it is only the Monegasque princely family that keeps Monaco intact since once the family dies out, Monaco reverts to France...
...failed for other scientists who had tried similar methods. On one trial, however, the Atlanta team happened to extract the eggs on the eighth day of the hormone regimen rather than the 10th. When these younger, presumably hardier ova were frozen and thawed, they emerged from the process intact. "It was more a matter of timing than anything else," says Michael Tucker, scientific director...
This year alone, 15 states have outlawed a rarely used procedure known politically as partial-birth abortion and described medically as "intact dilation and extraction." To pro-choice groups, the new laws in states from Rhode Island to Montana represent an alarming challenge to the fundamental principles set down by the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. "The antiabortion movement has in one sense already won," says Janet Benshoof, president of the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, which is challenging nine of the new laws in court...
...being killed at the rate of about one a month. Then the same phenomenon started happening at Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park, in the southeastern section of the country. Poachers looking for precious horns are the usual suspects when rhinos turn up dead. But not this time. These animals were left intact, horns and all. Their wounds, moreover, had been caused not by gunshots but by long, sharp objects with some mass to them...