Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent issue of the Soviet weekly Ogonyok, which has campaigned against anti-Semitism, printed some of the hate mail it has received: "You Jews started this damn revolution, and now your plot to ruin Mother Russia has succeeded" and "We must not let you slink out of the country, or we'll have to hunt you down like Trotsky. We'll get you here, because that way it will be cheaper...
...many would-be parents, the recent revolution in prenatal genetic testing has created agonizing dilemmas. If the tests reveal genetic abnormalities in the fetus, the mother and father must either have a handicapped child or resort to abortion. At best the choice is painful. For some, it is the worst kind of moral quandary...
...chromosomes, which are complementary to 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...
...chance. In New Zealand last week there was practically nothing but comment. Naomi complained in a newspaper interview that her husband had developed a "fantasy thing" for his 37-year-old speechwriter, Margaret Pope. Then David's 80-year-old mother Phoebe piped up, pronouncing herself "so angry I could behead him with my crutch." For his part, Lange declared that he planned to live with Pope and joked of his mum's dismay that she was "writing a soap opera called Lays of Our Dave...
...Novak taped 250 hours of conversation at the White House, in the Carlyle Hotel in New York City, at the Reagan ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., and, of course, over the phone. Reagan offered candid recollections of the day her husband was shot, her hospitalization for cancer and her mother's death...