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...donor's womb. Next week a House subcommittee will release a report charging that the Department of Health and Human Services has shied away from funding research on "test-tube fertilization" because of pressure from right-to-life groups. As a consequence, the discovery of new techniques to make the procedure more reliable and lower its cost (currently $6,000 for each attempted fertilization) must depend on uncertain private financing...
Never underestimate the ingenuity of a businessman out to make a quick buck. Last week two shipments of gray and white rubble, totaling 20 tons, were airlifted from Germany to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The Missouri entrepreneurs who imported the debris swear that it comes from demolished portions of the Berlin Wall. Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, they will split it into 2-oz. chunks to be sold, along with an "informative booklet and a declaration of authenticity," for $10 to $15 in gift shops and department stores...
...would be as successful as men," says Carolyn Lo Galbo Goodfriend, 39, a mother of a five-year-old, who manages more than $300 million worth of accounts for Kraft General Foods in Rye Brook, N.Y. "But the trade-offs and sacrifices a woman has to make are far greater than a man's." Lo Galbo once met Steinem at an awards dinner and demanded to know, "Why didn't you tell us that it was going to be like this?" The matriarch of Ms. magazine answered with admirable candor: "Well, we didn't know...
...other hand, stay-at-home mothers, who still make up one-third of all U.S. women with children under 18, feel their status has been depreciated by feminism. Sighs Dabney McKenzie of Montgomery, who describes herself as both a "feminist" and a "typical Southern housewife": "It's almost as if there's a caste system of employment, and motherhood is down there at the bottom...
...might be tempting to conclude from the wide-ranging complaints from so many quarters that the women's movement has failed, that rather than improve the lot of women, it has helped make their lives more complex and difficult. But for all the discontent and frustration expressed by women today, a vast majority revels in the breakthroughs made during the past quarter-century: the explosion of roles for women, their far greater participation in the country's political and intellectual life, the many options that have come to replace their confinement to homemaking. Very few women would like to turn...