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...awful lot of people at large in the world began their lives in a dish. Just over 30 years ago, a British baby named Louise Brown became the first viable child conceived by in vitro fertilization. Now the 3.5 million people who have followed her match the population of Lithuania. But 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...
...same reason they wouldn't want to go to Varanasi or Pushkar for a holiday - it's too much reality for what should be entertainment. "We see all this every day," says Shikha Goyal, a Mumbai-based public relations executive who left halfway through the film. "You can't live in Mumbai without seeing children begging at traffic lights and passing by slums on your way to work. But I don't want to be reminded of that on a Saturday evening." There is also a sense of injured national pride, especially for a lot of well-heeled metro dwellers...
...cold as an excuse to get close, Michigan's Grand Traverse Resort and Spa has a "2 Night Carefree Getaway" package. That package includes breakfast and a dinner on one night of your stay. And on Valentine's Day weekend, the Cherry Capital Winter Wonderfest has film festivals, live music and sleigh rides. Package rates start at $444 per person. 100 Grand Traverse Village Boulevard, Acme, Mich...
...site has only been live for a week and already its 14 volunteers - some are Heritage employees, others work for nonprofits, and still others are just passionate people with extra time on their hands - have finished their first run through of the bill. While readthestimulus.org enters the second, fact-checking phase, some volunteers have taken on side projects of their own. Kristina Rasmussen, director of government affairs at the National Taxpayers Union, has been cross-referencing the federal agencies mentioned in the bill with U.S. Office of Management and Budget's program assessments and has found a number of programs...
...Then Gibbs took the stage for his first White House press briefing, and promptly disclosed the official's first name. "We had Greg help you guys understand a little bit of that," Gibbs said, in front of live television cameras. Later a reporter asked Gibbs if he realized he had just disclosed the first name of the undisclosed official. "I do," Gibbs said, keeping his composure. "I'm tempted to ask you to see if you can get one person's name into the papers so people will think he might be a Brazilian soccer star." Unhappily for Gibbs, White...