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...fanned out through the downtown shopping area to make their purchases. Back in Dublin's Connolly Station a squad of uncomfortable-looking customs men, forewarned, awaited their return. Also on hand were 150 Lib supporters waving placards reading: WOMEN ARE BABY MACHINES! and I'M ON THE PILL-ARREST...
When the would-be smugglers emerged from the train, a customs officer raised his hand to halt the procession. One of the women cried, "Loose your contraceptives!" and a shower of condoms, pills, diaphragms, foams, intrauterine loops and spermicidal jellies fell at his feet. Some women tossed the contraceptives over customs officials' heads to friends. Others produced the pill, swallowed it, then challenged customs men: "Now confiscate that...
...leaders have long dreamed of producing "another nylon," but the company has introduced few notably profitable products in the past decade. Several that did appear turned out to be expensive failures. Corfam, the synthetic leather, is being phased out after an investment of $100 million. Other disappointments: an antiflu pill called Symmetrel and a venture into the production of photo film. Last week the board announced a decline in earnings from $93 million in the first quarter of 1970 to $74 million in the equivalent period this year...
...aggressiveness is as important as spurring his intelligence. Harvard Neurosurgeon Vernon Mark advocates a nongenetic approach. "There are basic brain mechanisms that will stop violent behavior, and we are born with them," Mark asserts. To tap those mechanisms, scientists would like to develop an anti-aggression pill (estrogens, or female hormones, have already been used experimentally to inhibit aggressive behavior). Until they do, Mark and two Harvard colleagues?Psychiatrist Frank Ervin and Surgeon William Sweet?are fighting aggression by using surgery to destroy the damaged brain cells that sometimes cause violence in people with specific brain disease. Typical of their...
...humanness" at the time of implantation of the zygote in the uterus, or even later in the fetal development. It is a question critical to the general debate. If ethicists establish humanness at fertilization, then birth control methods that prevent implantation, such as the intrauterine device or "morning-after" pill, would be considered methods of abortion rather than contraception...