Word: microdots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COMEBACK KIDS Microdot, a technique for reversing vasectomies, can improve a man's chances of fertility. In reattaching the 0.01-in. duct that carries sperm, doctors use a microscope and tiny marking pen to plan sutures more precisely...
...statue of agency founder William ("Wild Bill") Donovan. Nonetheless, the meltdown of Soviet power has startled the CIA nearly as much as it has the KGB. So long as the Soviet Union faced off against the U.S., the chief mission of American intelligence gathering could be summarized in a microdot: watch Moscow and all its worldwide doings. Now, confronted by the spectacle of a dissolving Soviet Union, intelligence agencies face the question of whether they should be refashioned for a world in which counting Soviet missile silos may be less important than tracking the intentions of well-armed Third World...