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...babies have a higher risk of genetic damage. "We need to have 700 or 800 babies to prove statistically that there is no increase in birth defects [for frozen-egg babies]," says Dr. Michael Opsahl of the Genetics and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Va. Kim doesn't buy that argument: "The bottom line is, Can you produce a baby? We say yes." He adds that the chromosomal tests done on his babies have so far come out normal...
...others, Germany was all about grit. Consider the character it must have taken for the side to rebound from its 5-1 defeat at the hands of England last September in Munich, went the argument. And look at how their team - depleted by the absence of several top players, including the injured Mehmet Scholl and Sebastian "Basti Fantasti" Deisler, who missed the tournament - hung together. The giant German 'keeper and captain Oliver Kahn - who made a series of awesome saves and was named as the goalkeeper of the games - oversaw a defense so mean it conceded just one goal before...
...Dominicans and Puerto Ricans converse in a hodgepodge of languages—at one point even considering seceding from the city of Boston to form “Mandela”—before sitting down at the neighborhood block parties or park benches to share food and argument. Wanderers are welcome, surprises guaranteed...
Millions are suffering. This is precisely the argument that research-cloning advocates are deploying today to allow them to break the moral barrier of creating, for the first time, human embryos solely for their exploitation. What is to prevent "millions are suffering" from allowing them to break the next barrier tomorrow, growing cloned embryos into fetuses...
...taking place against the odds. In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. museums and private collectors were reluctant to let their prized paintings go to Europe by air, and many refused to take the risk. But the exhibit's curator, William Hauptman, had a convincing argument: he told museums and art owners that if the paintings were not lent, American Impressionism would remain unknown to European audiences...