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While Harris' project may seem shallow, the idea of choosing an egg donor based on physical characteristics is hardly new. Several egg businesses already let clients select donors by race, weight, height, eye color or hair color, not to mention such preferences as "fine boned" and "tanning ability." Harris isn't the first to charge for eggs either: virtually all egg donors are in fact sellers, at a typical rate of between $3,000 and $5,000 per ovum, plus medical expenses. And an unnamed egg-seeking couple put an ad in several college papers last winter offering...
DIED. ABRAHAM POLONSKY, 88, film-noir screenwriter and director who was blacklisted for nearly 20 years for refusing to name names at the height of McCarthy hysteria; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Polonsky, who won an Oscar nomination for the 1947 boxing film Body and Soul, continued to work in Hollywood pseudonymously...
Some explained that the council's decision to end rent control in 1996 has led to a shift in Cambridge demographics. Residents on the whole are wealthier and as a result less inclined towards liberal ideology now than they were during the height of Triantafillou's political success...
...take the giant steps required to complete the peace process. But it may take more than even Rabin's inspirational example, commemorated by Arafat, Barak and Clinton in a ceremony in the Norwegian capital Tuesday, to spur progress in the troubled march to peace. After all, even at the height of the optimism and trust forged between Rabin and Arafat, the "final status" issues currently on the table were considered too contentious to tackle. But instead of building the trust and confidence of both sides in the peace process, the last five years of incremental agreements and breakdowns...
...result, there's another payoff: a healthy dose of gratitude. Vince Mattaliano, 53, a communications manager at Roche, carries more than 200 lbs. on his 5-ft. 6-in. frame. After measuring his blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose, weight and height last year, company doctors wrote him a free prescription for Roche's weight-loss drug Xenical. Company nutritionists worked out a diet that allows Mattaliano to eat his favorite dishes while cutting out 400 calories a day. Fitness instructors designed his workout routine in the company...