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Both teams use similar approaches to egg freezing. After retrieving as many as 20 eggs from a woman by stimulating the ovaries with fertility drugs, researchers dip the eggs in a cryoprotectant (a kind of antifreeze) and then a sugar solution, which pulls water out of the cells by osmosis. Then the cell is stored in liquid nitrogen at -320[degrees]F until it is ready to be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eggs on Ice | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

What Bangkok Airways does have in common with the Western regionals is that it also makes money. Despite a slight dip in October, earnings were up 33% last year to $2.7 million. Says CEO Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth: "We've been growing at least 20% a year since we started regular flights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand's Big Little Airline | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

With key injuries to senior middle blocker and co-captain Justin Denham (lower back) and freshman outside hitter Will Reppun (ankle), Harvard dropped its next four matches by a combined margin of 12-3. During this losing streak, the Crimson saw its league record dip to 1-4, and its usually solid home mark was a subpar...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Volleyball Fails To Meet Expectations | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...rare exception, are all white-collar. They are programmed to be so." Santangelo says that in the past, university degrees were turned into law careers to provide a small army of legal defenders. "They've already got enough lawyers. They're diversifying," he says, into public fund administrators (to dip into billions of dollars of European Union aid money destined for southern Italy), engineers, computer programmers, bankers and financial managers - these are the new faces in the trenches of organized crime. Chain-smoking in his cluttered Palermo office, top anti-Mafia prosecutor Antonio Ingroia explains the pattern. A die-hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet The Modern Mob | 6/2/2002 | See Source »

Owners and managers of feedlots sometimes have a hard time comprehending that if devices such as dip vats and restraint chutes are properly designed, cattle will voluntarily enter them. Because I think in pictures, I assume cattle do too. I can imagine the sensations the animals feel. Today half the cattle in the U.S. are handled in equipment I have designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Myself | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

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