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...Human Fertilization and Embryo Authority, a government watchdog group. The agency is generally supportive of the procedure and indeed has been looking for a way to reduce the incidence of multiple births among IVF families. Nonetheless, the fact that there is a moral cop on the beat gives some comfort to the procedure's critics. For the unnamed 41-year-old, little of this matters. In two months, she'll be changing diapers...
...loss is Harvard’s first after an historic first win over a ranked opponent, when they defeated then-No. 17 Boston College, 82-70, on Jan. 7. Harvard then beat Dartmouth in New Hampshire, which helped Lin, Pusar, and freshman Oliver McNally earn Ivy League honors last week...
...amazing story that no one's really talking about," says Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst with Hollywood.com. "For a movie starring a 78-year-old to have a $29 million opening weekend in wide release, and in the process to beat out the likes of Anne Hathaway in Bride Wars, I don't know if I've seen that before ... It's a testament to how people still feel about Clint Eastwood...
...loss is Harvard’s first after a historic first win over a ranked opponent, when they defeated then-No. 17 Boston College, 82-70, on Jan. 7. Harvard then beat Dartmouth in New Hampshire, which helped Lin, Pusar, and freshman Oliver McNally earn Ivy League honors last week...
...First won elected office in 2006, when she beat a four-term incumbent Republican 53% to 47% for a seat in Congress representing an area from the Upper Hudson Valley north into the Adirondacks. The 2006 race got personal and nasty: a domestic-violence-related police report about her opponent was leaked late in the race, accusations flew that Gillibrand actually lived in a New York City apartment, and both sides ran numerous negative TV commercials. Gillibrand was re-elected in 2008 with 62% of the vote - more than $10 million having been raised for that contest. Her district...