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...Jeffries said. Not realizing that this was a rhetorical question, I began to answer. Then he said, "Skip Gates. He's a faggot. A faggot and a punk...

Author: By J.eliot Morgan, | Title: The Truth About Jeffries | 11/2/1991 | See Source »

...more dovish minister, David Levy, said he would skip the conference and criticized Shamir for naming his own people to head negotiating teams. Among the men Shamir reportedly was taking to Madrid was deputy foreign minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a political rival of Levy...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Israeli and Arab Hard-Liners Prepare for Peace Conference | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...past decade. It used to be considered an option of last resort; with success rates running below 5%, most doctors put couples through the full gamut of conventional therapies before turning to IVF. Today a couple in their 30s with undiagnosed infertility is likely to be told to skip invasive tests and exploratory surgeries and go straight to in vitro or related technologies. Streamlined procedures and lowered costs are part of the reason. But it was the development of two variations on the basic IVF procedure -- GIFT and ZIFT -- and the impressive success rates they have produced that have made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treating Infertility: Making Babies | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...Caruba is certainly making plans. He plans to run his write-in campaign from his front porch. He plans to skip Iowa. ("Who wants to stand around in the freezing cold in the near vicinity of farm animals?") He plans to install a pool table in the Oval Office. He plans to grant statehood to any Canadian province that wants it--except Quebec, "which nobody likes, anyway." Most of all, he plans to inject a little life into an inevitably humdrum campaign. And he thinks he's just...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Are You Bored? I'm Bored. | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...rates are high. Summertime spent on the hot ghetto streets is hardly as culturally enriching as the time middle-class students devote to camps, exotic vacations and highly organized sports. Moton and Lockett, for example, are located near New Orleans' notorious Florida and Desire housing projects, where children sometimes skip rope within the sound of gunfire. "This has nothing to do with competition with the Japanese and everything to do with urban reality," says McKenna. "This is eight hours when the drug addicts can't get at these kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why 180 Days Aren't Enough | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

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