Word: reporte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shelf life of scandal, even presidential scandal, is not indefinite, and after such hypersaturation, Americans may find themselves not only ultimately bored by the Clinton-Lewinsky affair but also indignant at Kenneth Starr's sadistically detailed report. Americans may conclude it was not necessary for Starr, in order to make his legal point, to engage in such a pornographic narrative...
...with the former intern under any definition (and thus committed perjury), the referral's bald, footnoted narrative reveals even more complex human intimacies. Initiated the week a budget impasse shut down the government, the furtive, sterile affair has brought Washington to a standstill once again. Excerpts from the report...
Even before the report was released, the President's lawyers had prepared a "prebuttal" to its expected allegations. On Saturday they issued an "initial response" to the charges. A selection from both defenses...
...until now, anyway. Geneticist Edward Fugger and his colleagues at Genetics & IVF Institute, a fertility center in Fairfax, Va., surprised the obstetrical world last week with a report in the journal Human Reproduction asserting that the clinic can offer couples an 85% chance of ensuring they will have a girl. "I'm impressed," says Dr. Alan DeCherney, chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the UCLA School of Medicine and editor of the journal Fertility and Sterility. "It really seems to work...
Although the technique yielded a relatively meager harvest of up to 300,000 sperm for each attempt (in contrast to 100 million or more in a natural ejaculation), the results were impressive. Of 14 pregnancies involving couples who wanted girls, the researchers report, 13 produced females. Says Fugger: "We're talking about increasing your chances of getting girls five- or sixfold." No formal report has yet been published on selecting a male baby, which, to the surprise of the scientists, was not the choice of most participants. But preliminary results suggest male selection will work 65% of the time...