Word: knee
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...scientific assumption: that if a woman takes the first set of pills but neglects the second, and her pregnancy comes to term, the child will be normal. For years RU 486 opponents have warned of Thalidomide-like tragedies, "the absence of hands, a foot grown out of a knee," as one spokesman put it. Baulieu and other informed advocates argue that this is chemically impossible; that in the handful of known cases where RU 486 did not stop pregnancy, the children born were all healthy...
...comes away from conversations with De Klerk and Mandela with the distinct sense that somehow, sometime, South Africa will be able to resolve its conflicts peacefully." MacLeod recalls that a few months ago, Mandela visited him at home and bounced the bureau chief's infant daughter on his knee. Says MacLeod: "I told Mandela that although South Africa had been a troubled country, we wanted Sophie to be proud of the fact that she was born here...
...Washington reporters' lust for proximity to stars is at least as intense as the Clintons' (it's the journalists who shamelessly drag trophy stars to the White House correspondents' dinner every spring), so naturally they are quick to detect a groupie instinct in Clinton, and to give a knee-jerk, pseudo-high-minded critique. But isn't George Will a TV performer? And is Sam Donaldson more profound than Richard Dreyfuss...
...president, will try to get his 80-year-old mother Miss Beryl to sign over her house to him, but since Miss Beryl's role is to be the Smartest Person in Town, she won't. the novel's hero, Sully, a 60-year-old handyman with a bad knee, will enact Good Guy Without a Grain of Sense. Sully's sidekick Rub plays Loyal Shortie with the Brain of a Beagle. The lawyer Wirf, representing Sully in a workmen's comp case, will remain Drunk & Useless...
...their main chance to achieve parity with their medical brethren. Says Frederick Goodwin, director of the National Institute of Mental Health: "If one is going to question the use of psychotherapy for the stress of going through a divorce, then one should also question physical therapy to rehabilitate a knee so a patient can return to skiing." Even so, Clinton's plan is likely to offer only half a loaf. As Tipper Gore told a Senate committee two weeks ago: "The final plan may not contain everything I would like it to. Anyone who is passionate about any aspect...