Word: maines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...euphoria of the moment has not removed all the reminders of how it was until very recently. On the route to Friedrichstrasse, a main Berlin crossing point, the subway train glides through two empty stations bricked up since 1961, when the Wall rose. The platforms are bare, eerily lighted by a few dusty neon tubes. East German border guards have learned to replace their studied sullenness of old with the occasional smile, but West Germans and others still must file through cattle-chute-like passport control points, and are made to exchange 25 deutsche marks ($13.50) for East German marks...
...those left in the egg's nucleus. Eggs that are not defective can then be selected and used in an increasingly common procedure known as in vitro fertilization. This involves placing the eggs in a soup of sperm and implanting resulting embryos in the mother's womb. The main difficulty is that only one in ten tries results in a birth. Yet the success rate may improve, and prefertilization diagnosis could someday be used to intercept defective genes that cause such diseases as Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis and thalassemia...
...been coming here as long as I can remember," said Imara Soto as she loaded her two 22-lb. turkeys into her car. Soto, formerly of Cambridge, now makes the 30-mile roundtrip from Burlington each Thanksgiving just to fetch the main course for her family's get-together...
COCA's other main objective is to work with the people of Central America for social and political change. Thus, when we learned on Thursday of the slayings of six Jesuit priests by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military, we postponed the teach-in. Although the draft cards were already sent, COCA felt it was more important to join in the nationwide effort to pressure Congress into calling for an immediate end to U.S. military aid to EI Salvador...
...parenthood. It carries echoes of When Harry Met Sally in the loving friendship of a thirtysomething mom (Kirstie Alley) and the cabdriver (John Travolta) who moonlights as baby-sitter. It has Hollywood's favorite premise, the fish out of water -- or, here, fetus out of womb. For the main character is a talking baby, in the worldly wise-guy voice of TV and movie star Bruce Willis...