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...allowed to publish soon. Managua and Washington, however, exchanged sharp words after U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett encountered anti-U.S. protesters while on a visit to the Nicaraguan capital. In El Salvador a meeting between President Jose Napoleon Duarte and the country's leftist guerrillas failed to occur, aborted by Duarte's demand that the rebels first lay down their arms. Yet all hope was not lost. Leaders of the guerrilla coalition met with Arias for the second time in two weeks. "We've made progress toward a dialogue," said Guillermo Ungo, one of the rebels' political leaders, after...
Fricke fills Chronos with natural events that occur at unnatural speeds: clouds churn like white water crashing against rocks, water spins dizzyingly and car lights advance so rapidly they been one bright squiggles against a backdrop of blackness. The moon moves across the sky like a second hand on a clock. A lake fills with water and then suddenly drys up. Food decays faster than it could ever be eaten...
...months have a remarkable capacity to recover from induced hypothermia, which is frequently used in pediatric heart surgery. Even so, doctors figured that once the hearts were stopped, the doctors had no more than one hour to complete the separation and reconstruction before irreparable damage would occur...
...Binder twins represent a rare natural anomaly. Siamese twins, who usually die at or before birth, occur in only one out of 100,000 deliveries, the result of an incomplete division of the fertilized egg in forming identical twins. Only one out of every 2 million births produces twins who are joined at the head. Because of the way the Binder babies were attached, their prospects were especially bleak. Without surgical intervention, says Rogers, who is chief of pediatric intensive care, "they would have had to remain bedridden for as long as they lived...
Sisters, meanwhile, have joined the laity in proclaiming women's grievances. A new round of rage could occur later this year if, as expected, the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur bow to Vatican pressure and oust Sisters Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey of Charleston, W. Va. Since signing a 1984 newspaper ad, they have refused to stop advocating a pro-choice abortion stance. Chicago's Sister Margaret Traxler, who also signed that ad, intends to organize a nuns' strike if they are expelled. Says she: "It's difficult for the Pope and bishops suddenly in this day to realize...