Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ticking of a woman's biological clock just got a lot quieter with the first known birth in the U.S. conceived from a frozen egg. It may stop altogether if turns out doctors can 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...
...probably to reduce the female's exposure to rival males). Female snakes too deploy cunning reproductive strategies. North American pit vipers, for example, store sperm for months, until some instinct tells the cold-blooded creatures that the temperature is right for fertilization. Like birds (close kin), most species are egg layers, though some give birth to fully formed young...
...urged Americans to create a Russian buffet for 24 guests featuring coulibiac of bass; to make egg topiaries; to etch their own glass; and to garnish their Easter hams with grass so fresh from the yard that the morning dew had yet to disappear. She upstaged First Lady Hillary Clinton in wreath making, and the First Lady of Cooking, Julia Child, in pastry making. And she has admitted, without reservation, her determination to take over Christmas. So revitalizing K Mart, the $32 billion discount-store dud, should be a piece of cake for Martha Stewart...
Some advisers think the high minimum isn't such a bad thing. Maybe betting the nest egg on hype-heavy IPOs is just another way for middle-class families to lose their shirts to financiers who wear nicer shirts to begin with. What will happen the first time Wit sells shares of some loser at $12 and they promptly sink to, say, $4? "These deals tend to be highly volatile," says a banking executive. "They appeal to people who can afford a certain amount of risk. But the mom-and-pops? God love 'em. It's not easy...
...Crimson may have dominated the offensive play and had numerous scoring chances, but a zero on the scoreboard tells the final story. Lucky or unlucky, a goose egg will never win a game, so Harvard's focus in practice has been on putting the ball into the goal...