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Harvard students who hoped to hop across the pond this summer to work may find themselves staying closer to home due to unresolved visa negotiations between the United States and the United Kingdom. The U.K. Border Agency recently unveiled a new youth mobility scheme that applies to individuals between the ages of 18 and 31 who would like to “experience life in the United Kingdom.” In order to apply for a visa, individuals must have a valid national passport from a country taking part in the youth mobility scheme. But because...
...specious reasoning that promote a claim debunked by scientists are truly doing a disservice to all children. The incidence rate of measles has sharply risen over the past few years; more people were infected from January to July 2008 than during any other time since 1996. In the United Kingdom, despite the subsequent denials of the myth relating the MMR vaccine to autism, the percentage of children being immunized for MMR has dropped from 90 to 82 since the original study. Correspondingly, children are now more at risk for the contagious diseases that the vaccine typically prevents. Parents who choose...
...bringing those millions into existence was not easy. On average, only a quarter of all IVF attempts with fresh eggs yield a live birth; frozen eggs perform even worse, topping out at just 17%. According to an announcement made yesterday by a team of researchers in the United Kingdom, however, all that may change. There is now a quick and reliable way to check the viability of eggs before fertilization and implantation begin - and two months from now, a previously childless 41-year-old woman will give birth to the baby who proves it. (Read TIME's 1978 article...
...Byron—a sexy sorcerer with a dark purple cape and matching tights to boot. For another, while Balanchine’s Nutcracker is in actuality Drosselmeier’s nephew, Nissinen’s Nutcracker is the much older Cavalier to the Sugarplum Fairy, come from the Kingdom of the Sweets to rescue Clara and bring her to their magical empire. This has the overall effect of simplifying the plot, but it also takes away the charm of two beautiful kids falling in love on Christmas Eve. Alexandra Heier as the young Clara more than made...
...wouldn't pick up on in a lifetime. For example, Holmes points out that even though humans are covered in hair follicles--we have more of them than chimpanzees do--most of our fur grows in an "extravagant topknot" on our heads. In the context of the wider animal kingdom, this is a bizarre, even perverse evolutionary innovation. We also have more sweat glands than any other animal on earth--we can sweat almost a gallon an hour. We don't think of ourselves as poisonous, but our mouths are as full of noxious, infectious bacteria as is a Komodo...