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...local softball field.) And even now, many townspeople are perversely proud of the fact that the hurricane wrought more damage in our town than any other on Fire Island. Yet Allen's book is far from a best-seller there--for as one hard-bitten, hard-drinking old-timer told me recently, "He just doesn't say enough about...
Over a decade after he and several doctors at the Medical School and MIT began seeking a way to determine a woman's ovulation period, Melvin Shapiro predicts--and hopes--that their discovery, the "Ovu-Timer," will be on the mass market within a year...
...Time hopes to market a $10, less complex version of the "Ovu-Timer" being used experimentally by women in eight clinics in and outside the United States, Shapiro said. Before the device is made available by prescription, however, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration must approve it by evaluating data collected in the tests...
...Timer works by measuring the viscosity of a woman's cervical mucus, which becomes "fluid and watery during ovulation," Shapiro said...
...Timer is also being tested on milk cows and thoroughbred horses. "Ninety-five per cent of all milk cows are artificially inseminated," Shapiro noted. "The artificial insemination works 75 per cent of the time. The Ovu-Timer will increase results to 85 per cent. This will benefit our food supply...