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...tension of the next two weeks, as the couple awaits the results of pregnancy tests, is agonizing. "Women have been known to break out in hives," reports Linda Bailey, nurse-coordinator at the IVF program at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. Success rates vary from clinic to clinic; some centers open and close without a single success. But even the best clinics offer little more than a 20% chance of pregnancy. Since tiny factors like water quality seem to affect results, both physicians and patients tend become almost superstitious about what else might sway the odds. Said...
...great efforts to preserve the sanctuary, even taking more casualties than would have been normal in order to preserve it. Many Sikhs, however, were unimpressed. "It is the same as telling a Catholic," said one Sikh at the temple, "that St. Peter's remains, but the Sistine Chapel is gone...
Charges of murder most foul On the evening of Sept. 28, 1978, Pope John Paul I said prayers in his private chapel in the Apostolic Palace, then retired to his bedroom a few yards away. It would be his last night alive: next morning, the Pontiff was found dead in his bed. The official cause of death was a heart attack. What made John Paul's demise especially poignant was that he had been elected Pope only 33 days earlier...
...Corporation is set by the president. Eliot was arguably the first great university president, forging the model on which the University is still run today in his 30 year term of office. Under him the average age of undergraduates and faculty increased, the requirements of dorm residence and regular chapel attendance were dropped, and professors became more professional. He introduced an elective-based curriculum and was the first president to address one of the few academic issues that consistently occupies the Corporation, academic freedom. Except for one incident involving an economics professor's textbook, he introduced the doctrine that Harvard...
Along with nearby North Carolina State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke will start up a computerized catalogue in August. It uses a database now for its acquisitions and plans to create facilities for public access to its catalogue are under...