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That could be a godsend for a young woman facing surgery or chemotherapy that would destroy the functioning of her ovaries. Such a woman would have the option of putting her healthy eggs on ice for future use. That option might also appeal to, say, a professional woman inclined to postpone childbearing. Theoretically, at least, she could store her best, grade-A eggs during her most fertile years and pull them out of the deep freezer at a later age should she run into trouble conceiving. Not everyone, though, would approve this use of an expensive technology...
...others, the Harvard presidential search is a godsend. "Please take him," says Ben Shim, president of the Dartmouth Review, the ultra-conservative journal which has repeatedly clased with Dartmouth President James O. Freedman '57. He is widely mentioned as a top candidate for the Harvard presidency...
Wetmore acknowledged last week that he lives primarily in a rent-controlled apartment in Cambridge, a $451-a-month godsend in a town where market rents on similar apartments can range from...
...supplies could take some pressure off rivers and lakes and would be a temporary godsend to millions of people. But if societies returned to business as usual, this bounty would only postpone the day of reckoning for humans and all other species. Humanity has long deluded itself into thinking that water shortages merely reflect temporary problems of distribution. Both industrial and developing nations are finally realizing that the world's fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource, an irreplaceable commodity that must be respected and preserved...
...Westfield's wheelchair could easily tip over on Fond du Lac's icy streets. She can rely on the van until 10 p.m., while city buses run only until 6:45 p.m. And the 60 cents fare is no higher than riding the bus. Said Westfield: "It's a godsend...