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...Tricky and possibly unrealistic, says Dr. Mitchell Rosen, director of the Fertility Preservation Center and Reproductive Laboratories at the University of California, San Francisco. "I don't think it would be used as a mainstream form of fertility treatment," he says. "I don't think it's going to replace IVF." Though he acknowledges the powerful desire to conceive the old-fashioned way, he points out that compared with the transplant process - finding an organ donor, enduring a long surgery and facing the possibility of a lifetime of drug therapy - IVF offers a simpler, more logical route. (Read "The Year...
...looked like any other postal package, only it breathed. In California a whistleblower in the postal service reported opening a set of stinking boxes to find dying chickens inside. “They are crammed into these boxes,” she recalled, “and the live ones are climbing over the dead and dying ones and cheeping when we get them...
Bareilles, a California native and UCLA graduate, is best known for her single “Love Song,” which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 last year...
According to the new report, the states with the highest number of homeless children in the period studied were Texas (337,105), California (292,624), Louisiana (204,053), Georgia (58,397) and Florida (49,886). The states reporting the smallest populations of homeless children: Wyoming (169), Rhode Island (797), Vermont (1,174), North Dakota (1,181), and South Dakota (1,545). However, the report also ranks the states according to parameters that go beyond their share of homeless children, factoring in, among other things, incidence of such health conditions as asthma and tooth decay. With that framework, Connecticut, New Hampshire...
...published by the Reader's Digest Association, is a leap of faith for Warren at a time when newspapers and magazines are under great financial strain. The launch also took place just months after Warren faced his first real barrage of public criticism, for his support of California's anti-gay-marriage ballot referendum, Proposition 8, and for his prominent role in Barack Obama's Inauguration ceremony. So while the magazine may be a financial gamble, it's also a test of Warren's influence and golden touch. (See the 25 most influential Evangelicals...