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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while incarcerated in a New Zealand jail.] Unlike earlier attempts to replace extremities, this operation involved the reconnection of dozens of tendons, nerves and veins. The physicians were competing with surgeons in Louisville, Ky., who went out on a limb in July when they announced that they expected to perform the first such operation by year's end. It remains to be seen whether the patient's body will reject the transplant. Even then, it could be a year or more before he gains enough control over his new limb to shake his doctors' hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give This Man a Hand | 9/24/1998 | See Source »

...some fun. Like, say, if a prayer-in-school statute gets passed. I know that all those folks have in mind the nice Protestant Anglo-Saxon form of praying. They're going to get a kick out of my kid when she comes into second grade and demands to perform a ritualistic dance to Martoza, the voodoo spirit of fertility. I'll be honest, it gets a little messy, particularly once the open flames and the chickens get thrown into the mix. But hey, the right to pray is the right to pray...

Author: By George W. Hicks, | Title: Falling Dow, Rising Awareness | 9/23/1998 | See Source »

...continued to perform oral sex and then he pushed me away, kind of as he always did before he [ejaculated], and then I stood up and I said...I care about you so much; ... I don't understand why you won't let me...; it's important to me; I mean, it just doesn't feel complete, it doesn't seem right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Affair Of State | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...Lewinsky touched the President's genitals through his pants and moved to perform oral sex, but the President rebuffed her. In her recollection: "[H]e said, I'm trying not to do this and I'm trying to be good... [H]e got visibly upset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Affair Of State | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...sperm cells under laser light, they could gauge how much genetic material each one carried. As it happens, X chromosomes have about 2.8% more DNA than Ys. Once the sperm had been distinguished this way, an automated sorting machine separated the Xs from the Ys, and doctors could perform artificial insemination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boy? Girl? Up To You | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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