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When Paxon decided to run for a seat in the Erie County Legislature, the local G.O.P. chairman was so sure the 23-year-old upstart would lose that he tried to recruit Paxon's mother to run instead. Paxon won, treated it like a full-time job and then went on to the state legislature, where he learned how to be a conservative Republican without alienating potential allies among the party's moderates. "With Bill, personality always transcended politics," says state senator Mike Nozzolio, a friend and former housemate during Paxon's Albany days. "He dealt with everyone...
...worst thing that can happen is that it won't work. (Well, the worst thing would be to lose some important paper, but I wrote about how to retrieve those a few weeks...
...feel 100 percent confident that we have the most qualified person for the job," O'Malley said. "To penalize [Bahat] because of the proximity in which he lives to another marshal would be unfair, and the class would lose...
Another intriguing method involves harvesting not a woman's eggs but bits of her egg-bearing ovarian tissue. Like egg freezing, this procedure could preserve fertility for women who know they are about to lose their ovaries. It could be used on females who are far too young to produce mature eggs--girls who are undergoing radiation treatments, for example. In theory, the tissue could eventually be placed back in the body and lead to successful pregnancies. (This has been done in sheep but not yet in humans.) Men's sperm-generating testicular tissue could also be removed, and presumably...
...money... I'm not complaining, you know. But I mean, why is it all happening to me? And if people are expecting this much, will they be mad if I let them down? I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I don't want to lose...