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...procedure went off without a hitch. But several months later, Lagos' hormones began reverting to menopausal levels. The ovary failed. In October 2007 she tried again, with a cortical-tissue transplant from her sister, harvested during the earlier procedure. Six months later, Lagos got her period for the first time in years. "This means that the ovary is working and we can start trying to get pregnant for real!" she wrote ecstatically on the blog she shares with her husband. But by summer, Lagos learned that the second transplant had also failed. Silber concluded it was most likely an organ...
...expanding list of political rivals could deepen as the national elections slated for December approach. The temperature of intra-sectarian politics, between rival Shi'ite and Sunni groups respectively, is also bound to rise in the coming months. Although January's provincial elections went off without a hitch, there's more at stake in the national polls, which will determine the next parliament and government. They'll also be a crucial test of whether Iraqis will have put their bloody past behind them and are able to resolve their differences through votes instead of violence...
...only possible hitch in the plan is Boston itself. A small city with manic drivers and harsh winter weather surely would not be kind to bikers. But we see no reason that this mindset cannot change with the environmental one. First, critics overestimate the problem of winter. Montreal, with a much colder and snowier climate than ours, is one of North America’s most bike-friendly cities, and its Vélo Québec was the first bike-sharing program on the continent...
...solution Park divined was to hitch South Korea's future to an expanding global economy. The country took advantage of its cheap labor to manufacture necessities like shoes and clothes to sell to consumers in the developed world, particularly those in the U.S. The strategy proved to be wonderfully efficient. It drew investment capital into the country, generating factory jobs for impoverished farmers, infrastructure to supercharge commercial development, and otherwise produced wealth South Korea could never have generated on its own. Eager to raise living standards in their own countries, Asian policymakers and businessmen to varying degrees adopted the same...
...it’s really growing,” he said. “I like more the little places.” Herregodts orchestrated the finer details of the new location, including the choice of bread and table setup. Opening night went off without a hitch. Regulars of the Jamaica Plain location came, along with new diners. “I had been doing construction. I was sort of out of my element,” Kranyak said. “When I opened, it was like, this was what I’ve been doing for 20 years...