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...understandable: it is only in the past 10 years that doctors themselves have discovered the limitations. "I remember being told by a number of doctors, 'Oh, you have plenty of time,' even when I was 38," says Claudia Morehead, 47, a California insurance lawyer who is finally pregnant, using donor eggs. Even among fertility specialists, "it was shocking to us that IVF didn't work so well after age 42," admits Dr. Sarah Berga, a reproductive endocrinologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "The early '90s, to my mind, was all about how shocked we were that...
...wealthy corporations have money enough to hire lobbyists to promote their interests in Washington. With a ban on soft money contributions to campaigns, corporations will likely take the money they would have donated to the campaigns and instead dump it into their already large lobbying efforts, something the individual donor cannot...
Campaign finance reform also disregards personal fortunes candidates can use during elections. The law attempts to limit the playing field by allowing candidates to voluntarily accept equal amounts from the government should they reject soft money. This rule, however, makes it a crime for a wealthy donor to contribute to campaigns while it does not limit use of a candidate’s personal fortune. Thus, the law favors the wealthy as well as entrenched incumbents...
Though Bush would later brand Iran part of the "axis of evil," the task force proposed factoring in U.S. energy needs when reviewing sanctions against Iran and Libya. In addition to Exxon Mobil, two other oil giants, Conoco and Phillips Petroleum--each a $25,000 gala donor--have long opposed the sanctions, which deprive them of markets. Conoco president Archie Dunham, an old Cheney pal, visited him March 21 to press the case. Big Oil saw the task force's proposal as a victory, though hopes of lifting sanctions were dashed last summer. Congress voted to renew them...
...Though Bush would later brand Iran part of the "axis of evil," the task force proposed factoring in U.S. energy needs when reviewing sanctions against Iran and Libya. In addition to Exxon Mobil, two other oil giants, Conoco and Phillips Petroleum-each a $25,000 gala donor-have long opposed the sanctions, which deprive them of markets. Conoco president Archie Dunham, an old Cheney pal, visited him March 21 to press the case. Big Oil saw the task force's proposal as a victory, though hopes of lifting sanctions were dashed last summer. Congress voted to renew them...