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Norlevo, an estrogen-free contraceptive made from the synthetic hormone levonorgestrel, works by preventing a fertilized egg from attaching itself to the wall of the uterus. If ingested within 24 hours, the pill is 95 percent effective. Available over the counter in France, it is sold by prescription only in the United States. “Girls should be able to get it where they spend most of their time,” says Dr. Laure Sirinelli of Broussais Hospital in Paris, “and that’s at school....

Nobody disputes that Depo-Provera is a highly effective contraceptive. The synthetic version of the female hormone progesterone, Depo-Provera works by blocking ovulation. It needs to be injected only once every three months. And it has a failure rate lower than that of oral contraceptives. But the FDA denied U.S. approval in the 1970s after test beagles on the drug developed breast cancer and two rhesus monkeys developed endometrial cancer. Upjohn contends those findings were not relevant to humans....

The “stuff” Mayor Taylor is talking about is a pain Littleton knows all too well. Eight years ago today—on the morning of April 20, 1999—the world watched in horror as Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, students at the nearby Columbine High School, unleashed a flurry of violence as random and incalculable as the Virginia Tech massacre this week. Twelve students and a teacher were killed. Twenty-four were wounded. For the residents of Littleton, a tight-knit Denver suburb of 42,000 that bore the brunt of that day’s carnage, the gunfire left an awful legacy that resonates to this day....

Heart disease kills more Americans than all other causes of death combined. Surgical advances have helped to keep many patients alive, and drugs–with their unpleasant side effects–can actually heal clogged arteries. But until this week, there has been no published scientific evidence to confirm the belief that one could reverse heart disease strictly through changes in lifestyle. The current edition of the British medical journal, The Lancet, contains the revolutionary results of a yearlong experiment conducted by Ornish and his colleagues–the program that opened Royall’s artery....

But it may be that Snoop’s songs, which often depict a world of gun-toting drama, describe a life he has not yet left behind. As he presented the MTV award for best rhythm & blues video, detectives waited outside to arrest him on charges of first-degree murder. Snoop, born Calvin Broadus, avoided arrest at the awards event, but later that evening he turned himself over to the cops. According to police, Broadus was present on Aug....

The uprising included several Special Operations officers who had earned decorations in the three-decade war against Muslim rebels in the south. The mutinous troops issued a statement complaining of favoritism and corruption. “We demand the resignation of our leaders in the present regime,” it said. “We are willing to sacrifice our lives today to pursue a program not tainted with politicking.” Armed Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Daniel Lucero said that the siege was not seen as a threat to power, and that the Manila government hoped for a peaceful resolution....

Such a shift would mean rethinking the broadside confrontational approach gaining traction in both the White House and Congress, while discerning how to get the best outcomes for what was considered the world’s most important bilateral relationship by President Donald Trump’s predecessor. Whereas President Barack Obama first turned the United States’ strategic sights toward China, Trump has sought to outright challenge Beijing and its rise. But the administration’s strategy so far has been a “mixed bag” at best, Douglas Barry, senior director of communications and publications at the U....

Then Iraq seemed to eave in. In a message to the United Nations, Baghdad admitted that Iraq still has far more weapons than previously acknowledged. It promised to junk its remaining missiles and pledged full disclosure of its ongoing nuclear-, chemical- and biological-warfare programs next month. Rolf Ekeus, head of the U.N. commission in charge of defanging Saddam, said an inspection team would arrive in Baghdad this week to begin monitoring the destruction of Scud missiles and other weapons systems and plants....

CARTOONSAnime Mania If you’re a fan of that always wild, often racy form of Japanese animation called anime, fire up your Web browser. Central Park Media (www.centralparkmedia.com), one of the largest U.S. distributors of Japanese videos and comic books, is teaming up with broadcast.com to show 125 anime programs on the Web. Each clip will be viewable at multiple speeds, so if you have access to a T-1 line or a cable modem, you’ll be able to see full-screen, full-motion images....

Ronaldo makes Champions League history Into the bargain Zinedine Zidane has bettered every Real Madrid coach since 1958. Luis Carniglia equalled the feats of Jose Villalonga a year previous in winning a league and European Cup double. No Madrid coach since then could do it until now. And it took 27 years for a team to match the feat of Arrigo Sacchi’s AC Milan side. This Real Madrid have no comparison in the modern era....

Webheads are now able to safely stay connected when they’re away from their keyboards–and they can thank something called the Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP. That’s the wireless industry’s technology for bridging the small-screen world of cell phones and the content-rich Net. WAP is the result of three years of negotiations between the big mobile-phone makers, Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia, and a single, 500-employee Silicon Valley start-up, Phone.com. Three years ago, Phone....

How did things fall apart so quickly? One problem was the government’s ham-fisted response to antipipeline protests: soldiers replaced police on the streets of the capital, La Paz, after the demonstrations began in mid-September–and a series of bloody confrontations ensued. Beyond that, Goni’s free-market ideas were greeted with public scorn. In February the government tried to raise income taxes at the urging of the International Monetary Fund, but after a mutiny by disgruntled policemen and others, the idea was scrapped....

(1) To own a piece of other countries’ good fortune. Right now, economic growth in Australia and parts of Europe, Asia and Latin America is faster than growth in the United States. (2) To invest in other currencies. When the dollar declines, as it has recently, foreign securities are especially strong. Adjusted for dollar changes, five foreign markets bested ours during the 1980s: those of Japan, Holland, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, in that order....

The act, authored by Rep. Charles Canady, Republican of Florida, would extend the law’s protections–would protect the right to life–to infants who survive abortions. Such babies sometimes are born as a result of abortions sought because the babies have (or sometimes are mistakenly thought to have) defects like Down syndrome or spina bifida. The House committee that passed Canady’s bill 22 to 1 heard heart-rending testimony about born-alive babies being discarded alive into soiled hospital linen or left on a baby scale, unattended, without warmth or nourishment, their hearts beating and limbs moving, until they died....

The Gennifer Flowers story had broken just a month before the New Hampshire primary, and we knew we had one chance to clear up the questions. So we were going with the biggest possible audience–“60 Minutes” just after the Washington Redskins vs. Buffalo Bills game. During one break, a light stand fell on Hillary’s head while executive producer Don Hewitt kept pressing the governor to just say yes or no–had he committed adultery?...

Last week Beane got some more news to worry about. A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine reported that women who took estrogen, with or without the female hormone progesterone, had a 30 to 40 percent higher risk of breast cancer than those who did not take any hormone treatments. The results were not as simple as they seemed. Women who took hormones for less than five years – or who had stopped taking them for two years – showed no increase in breast cancer, according to Graham A....

This new development comes after decades during which the GOP struggled to attract minorities into its ranks—both minority voters as well as minority candidates. The Republican Party, which saw its support among Black Americans begin its descent shortly after Reconstruction, stopped making concerted efforts to regain Black support by the 1960s. President Richard Nixon, who had a “Black Cabinet,” was the last Republican president to make a concerted push to win over Black voters....

A decade ago, complaints like Kimzey’s would have been dismissed with a winked understanding that “boys will be boys.” But that was before Anita Hill raised the nation’s consciousness about sexual harassment. Even more important were some fundamental changes in federal law that made it easier to sue. In the debate that followed Hill’s 1991 testimony during Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings, women learned about the little-known legal concept of a “hostile environment”–a job situation made untenable by a co-worker’s repeated, sexually inappropriate behavior....

What a change. When I went to my first such concert, circa 1988, the scene would be somebody’s crowded apartment with everyone sitting on the floor. The singer was wanted by the KGB, or could easily have been. Teenagers like to dramatize, but this really was deadly serious. At the very least, we risked getting into serious trouble from our parents. At worst, by cavorting with acknowledged “dissidents” in that repressive still-commie era, we could have ended up in jail....