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Depending on the method used, emergency contraception can reduce a woman’s risk of becoming pregnant from a single act of intercourse by between 75 and 99 percent. It works similarly to regular birth control pills; it contains the same hormones and likewise prevents ovulation or fertilization of an egg. If fertilization has already occurred, the hormones prevent the egg from implanting into the uterus—which is the medical definition of pregnancy. Although research over the past 30 years has shown that the morning-after pill is safe and effective, the many barriers to obtaining...
...superstardom doesn’t begin by vacantly staring at your cube, he warns. “Go online and type in ‘beginner’s solutions,’” Camann advises. He claims there’s “no method that is secret,” and that practice is essential to improving Rubix prowess. If “Magic of Numbers” makes you squirm, don’t ditch that Cube yet. Camann says that “a couple of competitors say that they were never good...
DIED. LOTTE BERK, 90, German-born dancer who created a body-conditioning program based on a hybrid of yoga, dance and calisthenics; in Hungerford, England. The Lotte Berk method--with its sometimes suggestive positions and names (e.g., the Prostitute)--attracted a cult following among women in swinging 1960s London...
...Anti-Semitic incidents are up in Italy and Belgium, too, while in France the number of anti-Semitic attacks increased dramatically until late 2002, then dropped this year. In London, racist and homophobic attacks have dropped slightly; but anti-Semitic complaints have increased nationwide. Is there a method to this madness? To find out, TIME has reconstructed a week in the life of the people who've suffered a verbal or physical assault because of their perceived differences. In this imperfect collage - Saturday, Nov. 8 through Friday, Nov. 14 - the stories share many qualities: young perpetrators, usually acting without organization...
...don’t recognize our courses,” she told me, “from a point of view of ideological delineation.” Women’s studies, Najmabadi argued, is what the committee focuses on. But her argument cuts both ways. If the method for choosing books and articles for tutorials were truly devoid of ideology, it is downright puzzling why all of them would end up being liberal manifestoes on the topic. It is not as if feminist theory’s vociferous detractors have not produced a large body of work in their...