Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strength and tradition of Harvard rowing attracted him over that of other Ivy League schools. He speaks of a certain "Harvard style" in crew. "It's very fluid, you try to remove and check or hesitation in your stride...
...that it can; indeed, that it has. What terrorism thrives on is doubt; what violence lives off is drift at the center of government. As long as there is doubt about the real future of Ireland, the IRA will have a direct incentive for influencing every move in this fluid process in its favor. Every new proposal is greeted by a new attack, every initiative with an atrocity, every new Minister of State with a publicity coup. The most violence-free periods have been when it was quite clear that no constitutional flux was intended, no change envisaged...
Half the size of University of Chicago's, Harvard's Statistics department distributes more administrative and department responsibilities per person. It's another reason why he describes Chicago's department as "more fluid...
...first insert a laparoscope, which is about ? in. in diameter, so that they can see the target: the small, bluish pocket, or follicle, inside the ovary, where each egg is produced. Then, a long, hollow needle is inserted through a second incision, and the eggs and the surrounding fluid are gently suctioned up. Some clinics are beginning to use ultrasound imaging instead of a laparoscope to guide the needle into the follicles. This procedure can be done in a doctor's office under local anesthesia; it is less expensive than laparoscopy but may be less reliable...
Once extracted, the follicular fluid is rushed to an adjoining laboratory and examined under a microscope to confirm that it contains an egg (the ovum measures only four-thousandths of an inch across). The ova are carefully washed, placed in petri dishes containing a solution of nutrients and then deposited in an incubator for four to eight hours. The husband, meanwhile, has produced a sperm sample. It is hardly a romantic moment, recalls Cleveland Businessman Popela, who made four trips to Cambridgeshire with his wife, each time without success. "You have to take the jar and walk past a group...