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...Stability above all else." Ten years after the tanks rolled through Tiananmen Square, that was President Jiang Zemin's directive, echoing through the state-run newspapers, and it seems to be the theme of a few tense days during which Beijing is determined to snip the fuse of protest before it burns too brightly. A Hong Kong-based human rights watchdog reports that authorities have questioned nearly 100 people to warn them against holding any memorials or demonstrations, and have kept at least 34 of them in detention. Police have paid visits to homes of parents who lost sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On a Tense Anniversary, China Isn't Taking Risks | 6/3/1999 | See Source »

...hard work was just beginning for Reid. She would spend the next year searching through the samples for a snip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flu Hunters | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...diagnosis (premature ovarian failure) rendered by a specialist at one of Manhattan's pre-eminent fertility clinics, he scoffed, "You're awfully young for that." I told him my husband Joe and I were launched on an adoption search, but he ignored me. Instead he palpated here, suggested we snip a sample for a biopsy there, then asked, eyes glowing with expectation, "Would you do anything to have a baby?" His confident expression dimmed when I answered firmly, "No, I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BATTLE AGAINST BIOLOGY; A VICTORY IN ADOPTION | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...instance, this week's $11.3 billion deal with Florida is a snip compared to the $18 billion it would have had to pay that state alone under the terms of the national settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State Settlements Create Smoke Screen | 8/29/1997 | See Source »

Affirmative Action: First Snip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week, Apr. 17, 1995 | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

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