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Salsa and Merengue, Social Latin—Cha-cha and Rumba, and Waltz and Tango are the other three classes being offered. They all take place weekly at Lowell Lecture Hall, where anyone—even those not affiliated with Harvard—may pay a $30 to join for the summer...
...Angeles clinic wants to bring that hope one step closer to reality by opening the first for-profit egg-freezing operation in the country. "It's like an insurance policy," says Dr. Thomas Kim, medical director of the CHA Fertility Center, which wants to start freezing the eggs of women ages 35 and younger beginning this fall for about $8,000. "If they are willing to do it, we are happy to give them the service...
...CHA's Kim and Dr. Eleonora Porcu at the University of Bologna both say recent technical advances have boosted success rates to the same level as embryo freezing, which is about 20%. In Porcu's most recent studies, 70% to 80% of the eggs survived the defrosting process without breaking down. Kim puts the current frozen-egg birth rate at 21%, based on a recently completed study in which 6 out of 28 women in South Korea became pregnant and later gave birth. One even had twins...
...earlier this month, in accordance with much of the advice outlined in a memo written by Ryan in 1995, Rwanda did away with the orthodox trial system. In its place, it has reinstituted the gacaca ( pronounced ga-CHA-cha), an ancient tribal custom—literally “justice on the grass” in Kinyarwandan, Rwanda’s most spoken language...
Crime (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), from L&O producer Dick Wolf, borrows not just L&O's cha-chung! sound between scenes but also its pro-prosecution bent. Made in cooperation with San Diego prosecutors, it finds raw drama in cases of murder and child molestation; after one verdict, a courtroom melee breaks out. As reality TV, it's riveting, addictive and well told. As a civics lesson, it's manipulative and tendentious. We have access only to the D.A.s, so the presumption of innocence, unpopular with crime-show viewers anyway, gets 86ed, and every emotional cue prods...