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...feel like, 'What can I do that will make me a little different?'' she says. At a recent awards ceremony, she turned heads with a glittering turquoise outfit, complete with matching wig. This month at a celebrity ''epicurean gala'' in Los Angeles benefiting cancer research, she fried up a batch of her mother-in-law's sesame chicken, complete with ''beer, spices and everything that is bad for you.'' Since she was freshly shorn for a fashion-modeling assignment, she also took the occasion to show off another of her many wigs, along with a crocheted headdress dripping with beads...
...notes that doctors in IVF clinics necessarily focus their attention on good embryos, selecting those that appear to be growing more vigorously than others, then choosing the most robust from that collection for implantation. But her study hints that taking into account the quality of the entire batch of embryos a couple produces might give doctors and their patients a better idea of their chances with IVF. Indirectly, says Yao, the four factors reflect all the other elements that play a role in a couple's fertility, including a woman's age and her medical history...
...moment the fresh batch of competitors walked their bikes to the starting line, spectators could tell that this group of cyclists were not quite the professional bikers who were racing earlier in the day. These riders had tattoos of pirates and skeletons covering the length of their arms. Some wore cut-off shorts instead of spandex. And all of them had canvas work bags slung over their shoulders as they clutched their handlebars, ready for their race to begin...
...tall, British-born Minns, 65, got the boot because he led a batch of U.S. Episcopal congregations, including the one where he was church rector, out of Episcopalianism and into the authority of the Anglican archdiocese of Nigeria - primarily out of dismay that Episcopalianism had elected the openly gay Robinson to be the bishop of New Hampshire. And Robinson, 61, a chatty, gray-haired Kentuckian who once said he looked forward to being a "June bride," was blackballed from Lambeth (which will convene in Canterbury) because Williams felt that the Episcopal church in the U.S. had made him a bishop...
...We’re not trying to convince everyone that we have the bells and whistles to make them better, it’s just hard work.”Although Harvard will be losing many talented seniors, the returners’ heart combined with a fresh batch of talent coming in next year makes Saretsky optimistic for the future.“It’s a class I’m excited about,” Saretsky said. “It’s a lot of talent in different key areas that we need. It?...