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...eight-cell embryo doesn't count as a human life in the first place--not when compared with the life it could help save. Opponents say the promise of embryo research has been oversold, and they point to the cures that have been derived from adult stem cells from bone marrow and umbilical cords; supporters retort that adult stem cells are still of limited use, and to fully realize their potential we would need to know more about how they operate--which we can learn only from studying leftover fertility-clinic embryos that would otherwise be thrown away...
...merely defend the idea of a natural golf course, adapting its color to the time of year," says López. "Logically these fields will be yellow and brown during summer and autumn. Only in spring will it be totally green." Overlooking his bone-dry club, dotted with almond trees, he adds: "Let's just say we're going back to the origins of golf. Natural surroundings, just like the conditions and design of the course...
...curvier girls get pregnant easily and can have truckloads of children. So why is the fashion industry emphasizing this totally unprecedented aesthetic? When I look at the fashion-forward Europeans, all I see is disaster. Tight jeans on men make them look sterile; lack of muscle definition and visible bones both look like malnourishment—which comes with a whole package of exciting side effects, like anemia, bone loss, and decreased testosterone levels, according to the Mayo Clinic. A complete lack of body fat—combined with clothes designed to make hips look smaller—makes...
...bottles of it in two or three locations around the house, with fancy decanters and cut-crystal glasses in trays, on shelves, in showy cabinets - at the ready for someone who could actually swallow it. Everybody gave my father, the village orthopedic surgeon, a bottle of it when their bone was mended - so the stuff came in as regularly as the mail. Every year or so my father would get a bottle of something and show it all around with a final pronunciation. "Now this is the good stuff," he would declare, deducing by this or that mark...
...Preakness Stakes. But after surgery on July 8 to replace hardware and clear up an infection in that leg, doctors found and treated an abscess in his previously healthy left foot. But the inflammation worsened: Barbaro had developed laminitis, a breakdown of the tissue joining his foot bone and hoof...