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...tissue, the egg will be unable to complete its journey. To examine the tubes, a doctor uses X rays or a telescope-like instrument called a laparoscope, which is inserted directly into the pelvic area through a small, abdominal incision. Delicate microsurgery, and, more recently, laser surgery, sometimes can repair the damage successfully. According to Beverly Freeman, executive director of Resolve, a national infertility-counseling organization, microsurgery can restore fertility in 70% of women with minor scarring around their tubes. But for those whose tubes are completely blocked, the chance of success ranges from 20% to zero. These women...
Reagan was able to smooth this over, but his would-be successors promise no such balancing act. One broad strain of pragmatists and moderates would consolidate Reagan's gains and repair his excesses. They would compromise to reduce the deficit, raising taxes if necessary. They would try harder to reach an arms-control agreement with the Soviets, sacrificing if necessary Reagan's proposed Star Wars weaponry. They would not try to legislate morality...
...this week. For tuition of around $300 a week, which includes housing and home-cooked meals at the rambling frame house that serves as the school's dormitory, students can spend from one to three weeks studying such subjects as oar-and paddlemaking, boat repair or canoe building. Says School Head Peter Anderheggen, 50, a former English professor at Norwalk (Conn.) Community College: "We're not going to turn an eager amateur into a master boatbuilder in three weeks. But I think we'll enable most of our graduates to build and repair their own boats...
...vandal who had alarmed the city's police force. And so that very night, the sheepish boys aroused a drowsy policeman and placed the severed limb before him. Before Per and Mike can live happily ever after, they may have to pay for the mermaid's repair. And that is likely to cost them...
...England he found his first choice for a backdrop, Big Ben, sheathed in scaffolding. Result: the shoot underwent a fast change of locale to Windsor Castle. Scaffolding also loomed as a potential problem at the Statue of Liberty, which was scheduled to be shut down late last year for repair and refurbishing. Leifer quickly corralled the busy Carl Lewis and got him to pose last October in what was then the only prototype of the U.S. Olympic uniform. "The real difficulty," says Leifer, "was getting him up at 5:30 a.m. to be at the statue when the light...