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...swimmer surfacing from a deep dive. As Kudrin meditates, even the smallest background noises are amplified. The ticking of the timer clock on the table, the clinking of the chandelier on the wall, the splash of drinking water into plastic cups all seem unbearably nerve-racking. On the twelfth move Kudrin, playing Black, guilefully offers Hitech a pawn. Hitech can't resist taking it -- thereby opening up the board to a masterful attack. From then on, it's Kudrin's game. Mikhail Tal wanders over from time ( to time, nodding approval. "The game is over," says a downcast Berliner, "only...
...doctors are offering an alternative: aborting some of the fetuses in order to save the others. So far, fewer than 100 women have undergone the procedure, called fetal reduction, at a handful of U.S. hospitals. Usually performed before the twelfth week of pregnancy, it requires that the doctor pierce the mother's abdomen with a needle and, guided by an ultrasound image, inject a lethal drug into the fetus. It dies within minutes. The remaining infants, usually two, then have a much improved chance of developing normally...
...twelfth novel, British Author and Playwright Fay Weldon has taken a giddy leap back to the fiction style of the 19th century. Enough of angst and ambiguity, of literary experiment. Bring on Trollope's nudging narrator and Dickens' moral confidence. The Hearts and Lives of Men -- surely a Victorian novelist would have come up with a livelier title -- is nonetheless set in modern times, specifically the fast-track London art world of the '60s and '70s. It covers 23 years in the lives of Clifford and Helen Wexford, an attractive, careless pair who marry, remarry, have messy affairs, manage...
...holiest times of the year, the bloodshed would not stop in the Holy Land. From secret locations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip last week, leaders of the Palestinian uprising issued leaflets addressed to their stone-throwing followers. The order: step up the violence on Land Day, the twelfth anniversary of the deaths of six Israeli Arabs who were killed while they protested Israeli government confiscation of their property. Anticipating trouble, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin took the unprecedented step of sealing off the West Bank and Gaza for three days. He warned of harsher measures to come...
...Star Tamara McKinney, who broke her leg three months before, fell on the first run. Two other convalescing U.S. skiers, Diann Roffe and '84 Olympic GS Gold Medalist Debbie Armstrong, could do no better than twelfth and 13th. Now came Fernandez-Ochoa. "I already felt the medal in my pocket," she said later between sobs. It must have been her hotel key, because she charged too hard and fell 20 sec. into the run. Her tumble gave Schneider the gold. The silver went to a sentimental favorite, Christa Kinshofer-Guthlein , 27, of West Germany, who won a silver in slalom...