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...lack of clear rules to help resolve many of the ambiguities raised by the decade-old, $1 billion in-vitro baby business -- particularly when the clinics and couples, like the Davises, fail to set out their rights and responsibilities in contracts. "Legislators don't want to touch this hot potato," says Boston University Law School professor Frances Miller, "so the courts have to deal with these issues." With more than 200 conception clinics around the country, and 2 million couples seeking their services, the judges may get a workout...
...mean, I enjoy watching steroidinflated monsters without necks roll around in the mud as much as the next guy. Honest--I think the forward pass should assume its rightful status alongside Mr. Potato Head and the swivel chair as one of mankind's three greatest inventions. I think the Super Bowl is underhyped. I love football--really...
...with my sister next to a horse-drawn cart. High up on the hay my grandfather was lying on a linen sheet. He was paralyzed. When the air raid started, the whole patiently marching crowd was suddenly filled with panic. People sought safety in ditches, in bushes, in the potato fields. On the now empty road there was only the cart on which my grandfather was lying. He could see the planes coming at him, how suddenly they dived down. When the planes disappeared, we returned to the cart and my mother wiped the sweat off Grandfather's face. After...
Deborah Johnson, a senior economist for Prudential-Bache Securities, foresees the possibility of what she dubs a "couch-potato recession." Her scenario: well-off baby boomers, who have already purchased their compact-disc players and microwave ovens and typically have children to provide for, will spend more time at home and do less shopping. According to Prudential-Bache's Yuppie Consumption Index, these consumers cut their spending 2.4% in the period from December through...
...rather than get myself into confusing situations, I have found that when I am true to myself, as Polonius suggests, I have had great times at Harvard--eating picante sauce with Cape Cod potato chips, dating whom I want, even if he might be from the East Coast, and being honest with my friends...