Word: franciscos
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...class-action lawsuit was inevitable. It was filed yesterday by a lesbian from (naturally) the San Francisco Bay Area. She claims that eHarmony's no-gays policy is discriminatory under California law. The company replied that it might offer gay matching services in the future and denied that it discriminates...
...money you had, you had to use wisely otherwise you had none," says Corduff, 53, drinking tea in his kitchen as he muses on the strange course of events that made him, first a jailbird, then a national hero and, earlier this month, took him to San Francisco to collect $125,000 as winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize...
...materials and style, prices range from $750 to $2,000-- affordable by designer standards--and delivery takes from six to 12 weeks. Styles include hatbox, duffel with wheels, packing suitcase, beauty case, tote bag and wallet. The line is now available in Samsonite's New York City and San Francisco stores. With so many choices, a one-of-a-kind, easy-to-spot suitcase at the baggage carousel is a lock...
...Francisco company announced Tuesday that they would be the first to offer IVF patients the option of growing, freezing and banking their own embryonic stem cells. Until now, couples undergoing in vitro fertilization could not earmark stem cells derived from their embryos for their own future use; they could only donate them to the nationwide pool of embryos used for stem cell research...
...Stem cell lines are not easy to generate, however, so StemLifeLine requests that interested couples donate at least 10 embryos if they want to take advantage of the service. Those frozen embryos will be shipped from the IVF center to the company's San Francisco facility at a cost of several thousand dollars (Krtolica declined to provide an exact figure, citing ongoing talks with a few IVF clinics). There scientists thaw and nurture the embryos to generate stem cells. These are then removed, cultured and allowed to grow. The surviving colonies are then frozen and kept cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen...