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...rare; they happen when a fertilized egg splits incompletely during early cell division. About 40 such sets of twins -- or 1 in 50,000 births -- occur in the U.S. each year. Few of the pairs live long enough for separation to be considered. The Lakebergs' doctors had put the likelihood of one twin surviving at no more than 20% and suggested an abortion...
...There tends to be an inverse relationship between the amount of press coverage each rumor receives and the likelihood of a deal. The Cosby gambit -- which was floated and came to nothing last fall, which generated a respectful Wall Street Journal article in June and a breathless feature in the current Vanity Fair -- is thus among the more implausible. It is also the most annoying, because Cosby's hangers-on are so strenuously pushing the notion, because it is such an indulgence of Cosby's self-righteous vanity, and because the story is a fabric of so many spurious bits...
Gregory J. Garber, assistant athletic director for operations, said Harvard has told the Special Olympics that it does not wish to host the Games again next year. "In all likelihood, sometimes down the line we will host them again, but not next year," Garber said. "We're trying to encourage the Special Olympics to develop some sort of rotating system...
Pharr says that narrowly defined searches can limit the likelihood that a woman will be hired. "When the standard is stated in that way, it's generally a male candidate that springs to mind," Pharr says. She is ambivalent about Harvard's procedure to find "the best" professors, and says the challenge is to make sure women candidates get equal consideration...
...policy does not change, there is "some likelihood" Harvard students would not be allowed to participate in the MIT ROTC program if Harvard stopped paying the fee, said Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, who chaired the ROTC committee...