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...claims. What's more, they question whether the treatment will be useful for the majority of infertile women. "I don't think we have data to prove that this will give the woman a better chance of success," says Dr. Suheil Muasherof the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Virginia. Trounson admits that he cannot predict the procedure's success rate, but in cattle, 30% of the embryos from immature eggs become calves. That's slightly better than the current 25% success rate for IVF in humans...
...carrier U.S.S. Eisenhower set out from Norfolk, Virginia, today on the first extended coed mission of an American warship, a Navy crew that included 400 women. Though women are outnumbered by men more than 10 to 1, the size of the female crew met the Navy's critical mass for shipwide alterations -- to everything from bunks to "heads," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. He notes the mission, this time to the Persian Gulf, took two years to get under way after Congress lifted the ban on women's serving aboard warships...
Bill Clinton did not claim mission accomplished, but he was eager to declare the U.S. occupation of Haiti a success. Aboard the newly returned aircraft carrier U.S.S. Eisenhower in Norfolk, Virginia, last week, the President told 1,500 sailors and officers that by landing in Haiti, they had "brought a new day to people who thought they would never get it." On behalf of the American people, he was delivering a "heartfelt thank...
...They are expected to set sail this week to transport weapons and materiel for the Army's 10th Mountain Division, which will play a key part in the postinvasion peacekeeping force. On Friday, Pentagon officials said that the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower will pull into its berth in Norfolk, Virginia, this week and begin replacing its planes with 70 helicopters, which can more easily land troops in Haiti. By late this week, the Ike and the U.S.S. Mount Whitney, which will serve as the invasion's command vessel, will leave for the Caribbean. Both ships should be in place...
RAILROADS. The U.S. had some 30 large railroads during the 1960s, but today the number has dwindled to a dozen. It is likely to shrink further if Conrail and Norfolk Southern go ahead with a deal and Burlington Northern completes its $2.4 billion acquisition of Santa Fe Pacific. That deal, announced last month, would create the largest U.S. railroad. The force behind such consolidations is the growing strength of a railroad industry that for years watched truckers drive off with its business. The railroads have cut their payrolls nearly one-quarter since 1987, which helped lower costs and reduce freight...