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...Department of Health, Education and Welfare ordered more than 3,000 federally funded family planning clinics to stop prescribing a device called the Dalkon Shield, which is used by more than 2 million women. HEW also asked private physicians not to recommend it until doubts about the safety and effectiveness of the Dalkon Shield can be resolved. One recent study showed an unusually high 10% pregnancy rate among women using the Dalkon Shield (the rate for other IUDs is about 3%). More seriously, other findings indicate that pregnancy resulting from the Dalkon Shield's failure can be perilous...
...Identity Shield. Last winter, aware that dope was canceling out his life, Clapton submitted to an experimental form of acupuncture. A month later he was free of his addiction. Recalling the treatment he says, "The doctor, a middle-aged Scotswoman, and her husband, a preacher-they really cared. They, as much as anything, brought me through...
...also adopted a series of "disguises" as a kind of identity shield. One night he may appear onstage in a three-piece suit, the next in jeans...
...Moscow so that he could meet with America's NATO allies was a decided plus for the U.S. Nixon's presence in Brussels was a signal to the Soviets that NATO'S disarray of the past year was at least patched over and that the Atlantic shield was once again in place. "Without the alliance, it is doubtful that the [Soviet-American] détente would have begun," Nixon said as he replied to the greeting of King Baudouin Tuesday evening at Brussels' Melsbroek airport. "And without continuing a strong alliance, it is doubtful...
...decades of the Republic, the press was highly partisan and rambunctious, often challenging authority or otherwise disturbing the peace. But because the founding fathers saw this role of the press as being essential to democracy, even as they were slightly uncomfortable with it, the First Amendment put a constitutional shield on press freedom, helping U.S. journalism to become the most independent and vigorous in the world. In the process, the business of informing its audience became far more important than polemics, and the U.S. press also developed the unique American notion of "objective" reporting, as distinct from editorial opinion...