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...sprung up in the U.S., and they have been responsible for more than 5,000 births. The surging demand stems from the high incidence of infertility: about 1 married couple in 12 has not been able to conceive a child despite a year of trying. IVF dangles one last shred of hope before some of these 2.4 million couples...
...went into his office and began to change the records, shred the records, destroy the records," Keker told jurors. Two days later, when he lied to then-Attorney General Edwin Meese III, "he had placed himself above the law again...
...process of "calling" -- half prayer, half politics -- is conducted in utmost secrecy. After Riverside's search committee makes its choice, it will not give the names of also-rans to the deacons who govern the church and it will shred all the papers in its double-locked filing cabinet. "If it is known you are a candidate and don't get the call, it is very rough," explains search-committee chairman J. Richard Butler. One church that publicly named several finalists years ago lived to regret it: one of the rejected ministers was so crushed that he suffered a nervous...
...resolutions, the first is certainly preferable, and the second is indeed an outrage. But either one would help give the Council what it sorely needs--a shred of character. Few things are more loathsome than a body so cautious as to be unwilling to take a stand in the face of pressure...
...Leningrad library fire was a natural disaster. Deliberate book burning seems not only criminal but evil. Why? Is it worse to destroy a book by burning it than to throw it into the trash compactor? Or to shred it? Not in effect. But somehow the irrevocable reduction of words to smoke and, poof!, into nonentity haunts the imagination. In Hitler's bonfires in 1933, the works of Kafka, Freud, Einstein, Zola and Proust were incinerated -- their smoke a prefigurement of the terrible clouds that came from the Nazi chimneys later...