Word: months
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meet reality. Thirty years after The Female Eunuch became a rallying cry for sexual liberation, making its striking young author an international star along the way, Greer, now 60, is out there being herself again: provocative, brilliantly engaging and maddeningly contradictory. She has a new book out this month, The Whole Woman (Knopf; 384 pages; $25)--already a best seller in the U.K. and her native Australia--and a punchy new slogan, "It's time to get angry again." Feminism has stalled, Greer argues convincingly if muddily, pointing out that the equality women have fought for is not the same...
British researchers announced last month a breakthrough in their development of an oral contraceptive for men. The pill was administered to 23 bold volunteers; the majority produced no active sperm after three months. The sperm loss was temporary, but the side effects required subjects to use testosterone patches in order to keep their manly form. To overcome this marketing dilemma, we asked the fertile minds at various ad agencies to think up some potent campaigns...
BABY ASPIRIN Low doses of aspirin may help infertile women get pregnant, finds a new study. Women undergoing in-vitro fertilization who took 100 mg of aspirin daily along with ovary-stimulating drugs produced nearly twice as many eggs each month as those who didn't take aspirin. Better still, they were 50% more likely to become pregnant...
...Japanese still have to win over a skeptical public, which was surprised to learn this month that at least 66 head of conventionally cloned cattle had been quietly butchered and marketed without any government announcement. To allay fears about the meat's safety, Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakagawa ate cloned beef on TV while aides noted that it was genetically unaltered and--a gibe at U.S. growers--untreated with hormones...
...fever has spread to the U.S. Within a month of its debut last September, the TV series--less a cartoon than a half-hour exercise in Pokemon product placement--became the highest-rated children's show in the U.S., first in syndication and now on the WB network. Nintendo has sold 2.5 million Pokemon Game Boy cartridges in seven months, making it the fastest-selling product in company history. Since January, 850,000 Pokemon trading-card sets have been sold in the U.S., and kids flock to malls to participate in official trading bazaars. So preoccupied are kids with...