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...Guided by the family's (now dead) housekeeper, we are taken back to the Poconos in the 1950s, on a summer weekend when several characters encounter a new love or are reunited with an old one. It would be nice to describe this as a flimsy pretext for a batch of Simon gag lines, except that the gags are too lame even for Simon in a nostalgic haze. One character is a boorish Italian stud with a penchant for malapropisms (he calls Roman gladiators "gladiolas"), and the play's comic piece de resistance is, so help me, a bird...
Finally, after a third failure, they tried a different approach: doctors retrieved a fresh batch of eggs, and this time they used assisted zona hatching, in which the egg's membrane, known as the zona pellucida, is chemically weakened so sperm can penetrate more easily. (Another way to do this is to drill a tiny hole in the egg; both methods are less tricky than full-fledged ICSI.) Their son, Eric Richard, was born in October...
...Atlanta, scientists at Reproductive Biology Associates decided to see if they could do something about that. First, they treated women with a 10-day regimen of hormones that stimulated the ovaries to produce a batch of eggs, which were then harvested. Next, they bathed the eggs in a chemical solution similar to the one the ovaries use to protect them. Finally, they injected the ova with antifreeze, placed them in a freezer that slowly lowered their temperature, and then thawed them just as gradually. The plan seemed to be a good one, but time and again it failed--just...
...flurry of publicity surrounding this year's batch of Nobel prizes reminded the public of the infamous romantic story of Alfred Nobel's attempt to purify his legacy as the inventor of dynamite by establishing awards for contributions in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, economics, literature and peace...
...this late date, there are no second families for women. A startling number of men in the class remarried in the '90s and had a fresh batch of children. Meimei Chang, who married for the first time in 1992 and thereby acquired grownup stepchildren, rightly considers herself to be "defying the odds that a woman over 45 could do so!" Far more numerous are the divorced women who never remarried. Or the surprising number who, sometimes without intending to, never married at all. "Marriage has continued to elude me," says Cynthia McClintock, who adopted a daughter anyway. Sharon Jean...