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...fertility of a prematurely menopausal woman by reimplanting ovarian tissue removed--and frozen--years before. While the woman, a 30-year-old ballerina, has yet to try to conceive, one important first step has occurred: she ovulated and had a period. The still experimental technique, developed by an Anglo-American team, may help women undergoing sterility-causing chemotherapy to preserve their fertility--and just may extend the childbearing years beyond menopause...
...Hitler had not hounded Jewish scientists out of Europe, the Anglo-American atom bomb program sparked by the discovery of fission late in 1938 would have found itself shorthanded. Most Allied physicists had already been put to work developing radar and the proximity fuse, inventions of more immediate value. Fermi and his fellow emigres--Hungarians Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann and Edward Teller, German Hans Bethe--formed the heart of the bomb squad. In 1939, still officially enemy aliens, Fermi and Szilard co-invented the nuclear reactor at Columbia University, sketching out a three-dimensional lattice of uranium...
...does seem outside Anglo-American norms toforbid the accused to have a hard in thequestioning either directly or through arepresentative," he adds...
Exhibit C--The Anglo-American War: The Oscars love to nominate Brits. Only they don't like to give them awards. In 1995, Sense and Sensibility racked up an overwhelming number of nominations. And then it lost in virtually every single category (to Braveheart, an American made pseudo-British film). In 1992, Marisa Tomei beat out four British actresses for her Supporting Actress Oscar. In 1997, Frances McDormand beat out a host of British actress for her Oscar--she was on screen for less than half of Fargo. But the best example came in 1998, when Helen Hunt beat...
...Navajo Nation case comes at a critical juncture for the tribe, which uses its court to address legal issues while respecting the Navajo way--a unique combination of traditional tribal dispute-resolution and Anglo-American judicial methods...