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...women react to unwanted pregnancy is the most crucial-and least acknowledged-issue in the current debate over U. S. abortion laws. Each year, an estimated 25 million legal abortions occur throughout the world (v. roughly 120 million live births). The fact is that women have always practiced abortion, defying all laws or taboos against it, including the death penalty, which still exists in Pakistan. The inevitable Egyptian papyrus mentions it; Aristotle urged it in general terms, and so did Plato for every woman after 40; Roman husbands were entitled to order it. Anthropologist George Devereux has catalogued dozens...
...wonder if there isn't a better word than "hustle" for what Tyson takes onto the football field every Saturday. Straining for an interception in the second quarter, Tyson ran full steam over the Harvard bench and somersaulted in the first row of the stands. Before the crowd could react, he was back on the field. Next play he teamed up with cornerman Mike Ananis to stop Smith from scoring B.U.'s second touchdown...
...stripped of an ablative coating that has protected the uranium from the 1000° F. temperature generated by air friction (solid uranium will ignite at 338° F.) As the bare depleted uranium comes in contact with steel, an exothermic, or heat-producing, effect occurs when the metals react chemically. This instantaneous heating, combined with the searing heat of impact, raises the temperature of the surrounding steel to such a degree that the flechette literally melts its way through, leaving a hole many times its own diameter...
Whether the plan is passed by Congress or not depends on how the extra-governmental groups react," Andrew M. Gleason, professor of Mathematics and a member of the panel, said Friday. "What we need is some group with a Congressional lobby to get behind it and push...
...film starts with a hypothetical Communist attack on West Berlin. The British government declares a state of national emergency, and the scene changes to Rochester to see how people react. And they react like animals. A beefy homeowner proudly points to his homemade sandbag shelter and, lying next to it, a shotgun for use on neighbors who try to push their way in. (The average family, as building contractors and lumber dealers push up prices, can afforod one sandbag and a few boards...