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...what if it doesn't work? What if egg meets sperm and nothing happens? Human sexual reproduction, as couples even before Sarah and Abraham have known, can be a heartbreakingly unreliable process. Even under the best of circumstances -- a fertile couple having intercourse at the optimum moment in the woman's cycle -- it fails 3 times out of 4. When conditions are less than ideal -- when the woman is over 35, for example, or the man's sperm is defective or in short supply -- the odds lengthen dramatically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treating Infertility: Making Babies | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...been set. "In all of this," admits a U.S. diplomat, "the anti-Sabah factions have been hurt by President Bush's saying that the gulf war was not fought in order to bring democracy to Kuwait. The Secretary of State has admitted that Kuwait's government is not 'the optimum type of regime,' but when the President, who's considered a saint in Kuwait, downplayed democracy, the Emir won a cushion that will protect him at least until the '92 vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait: Back to the Past | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...bone marrow would match her sister's. The Ayalas won that gamble too. In April 1990 Mary bore a daughter, Marissa. Fetal stem cells were extracted from the umbilical cord and frozen for use along with the marrow in last week's transplant. Then everyone waited for the optimum moment -- the baby had to grow old enough and strong enough to donate safely even while her older sister's time was waning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When One Body Can Save Another | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...block the project, the councillors had vowed that Scheme Z would never see the light of day. According to Russell, it now appears that "somewhere there's going to be a best deal," even though the committee has discarded the interchange design that environmentalists and city advocates considered optimum...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Alternative Schemes Find Favor Over Z | 5/1/1991 | See Source »

...cooperate in the development of new reactors. Yet while the statement recognized "the environmental ^ benefits" of nuclear power and noted that it provides "one appropriate response to the challenges now confronting the entire planet," the signers warned that future development of atomic energy "must take place in conditions of optimum safety, ensuring the best possible protection both for populations and for the environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Power: Time to Choose | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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