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Their first stumbling block may be in sight: computer terminals, offering limitless Internet access, are scheudled to make their debut in the children's section of the Cambridge Public Library...
...sight of ranking delegations from a number of U.S. allies being glad-handed in Teheran Monday was a troubling spectacle for Madeleine Albright ? and U.S. policy on the Middle East. Iran trumpeted the arrival of representatives from the 55 member states of the Islamic Conference ? including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, Egypt and other U.S. allies ? for a summit which opens on Tuesday was heralded by Iran as a victory over Washington?s policy of isolating Teheran. Many of the same moderate Arab governments had stood up Albright last month at an economic summit in Doha in Qatar in order...
...have to wait a week for From Here to Eternity. (The 12th is Sinatra's birthday.) But if the sight of nation against nation leaves you cold, get topical with The Basketball Diaries (1995). It's said to have instructed that loon in Kentucky exactly how to shoot a bunch of your classmates. But high-schoolers, please: use rubber bullets. Happy viewing...
...Katherine Hauser will never forget her first sight of Bobbi McCaughey's babies on the screen of the ultrasound machine. Hauser, a reproductive endocrinologist in Des Moines, Iowa, had been treating Bobbi for infertility, and the medication she'd prescribed had worked like a charm. Although it often takes repeated injections of ovulation-stimulating Metrodin to prime a woman's reluctant eggs for successful conception, Bobbi got pregnant on the first try. Hauser had warned Bobbi and her husband Kenny that a side effect of fertility drugs can be multiple births; in about 20% of cases, a woman who conceives...
...fully visible actor as if she were pushing an anthropomorphic wheelbarrow. Birds "fly" on the end of a pole waved around like a kite, while a huge elephant galumphs down the aisle. As they converge to the strains of Circle of Life, it's not just an awe-inspiring sight, it's also a notice to kids and adults alike: Broadway theater is alive again...