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...defense, holistic vets point to miraculous recoveries like Casey's that cannot, for once, be attributed to the placebo effect, in which the expectation that you will get better actually makes you better. The beasts of the field, it may be safely assumed, don't come to the animal clinic expecting anything; the results they get speak for themselves...
Last week an Atlanta fertility clinic announced that the woman had given birth to two robustly healthy boys. The improbable pregnancy was big news for the woman's family--and the way it was achieved was equally important to millions of other women. For the first time in the U.S., babies had been born from eggs that were frozen--and then thawed--before they were fertilized...
...insistence, La-Kia was rushed to the more peaceable hallways of St. Thomas Aquinas, a parochial school costing $1,400 a year. Because La-Kia's mother Yolanda is unemployed, Lester paid the tuition himself. But he's a retired children's clinic administrator, so money is scarce. Help came at a community meeting a few months later. Lester heard Robert Sorrell, head of the local chapter of the Urban League, talk about the new school-voucher program that Sorrell had started with money from the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association. The businesses were providing up to $1,000 in private-school...
...teacher was saying I can't send her to that program." The tutoring ended, but Olivia's reading didn't improve, and in second grade she became scared and frustrated. "She was literally pulling her hair out," Muskie remembers, her voice cracking. A year later, Muskie found a reading clinic that used a phonics method. "It took them six days," Muskie says, "and Olivia could read...
...replicate a new technique that freezes a woman's eggs without rupturing the cells. A few other researchers worldwide had announced similar results over the past decade, but no one had successfully been able to repeat the experiment. If the procedure invented at Atlanta's Reproductive Biology Associates clinic holds up, women could freeze eggs while in their early twenties, when they are the most fertile, and have their children much later in life. While this frees women from many of the biological constraints that currently make having children later in life a dicey proposition, the generational and societal hurdles...