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Thanks to in vitro fertilization (IVF), the skyrocketing use of fertility drugs and the increasing number of women who delay childbearing until their 30s or 40s, the incidences of multiple births have increased in the past two decades. In 1980, IVF - in which hormones are used to induce the production of eggs, which are externally fertilized and then implanted back into the uterus - became available in the U.S. Since then, the percentage of twins and triplets as a proportion of total births has increased several-fold. It's almost as if no one is impressed by them anymore. Two kids...
...Junior co-captain J.P. O’Connor (157 lbs) was the only wrestler to notch a victory in both his bouts, with senior Tommy Picarsic (133) and rookie Bryan Panzano (174) adding wins on Sunday.While the scores of both duals appear lopsided, the additional victories and a number of close contests represented improvement over the weekend.“I don’t care about the score, we were looking for a turnaround against Army and it was a lot better,” Weiss said. “We won three bouts and were leading two others...
...required. "I asked that an exception be made because I felt that he could play the role of the deputy in a better manner than anybody else that I saw," Gates said. The next day, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said Lynn would be getting one of a "very limited number of waivers" so he could assume the Pentagon post despite being a registered lobbyist for Raytheon from...
...recent weeks Bao has repeatedly questioned the authoritarian nature of China's central government. He helped draft Charter 08, a lengthy pro-democracy manifesto that was made public Dec. 10 and was initially signed by 303 mainland writers, scholars and artists - a number that has since grown to several thousand. Then he released a series of essays through Radio Free Asia that questioned the accomplishments of the Party. In those essays, Bao argued that the Communist Party's motivations for reforming the economy in the early 1980s after the devastation of the Cultural Revolution were not entirely pure. "Even though...
...resolution to the crisis in Zimbabwe would resonate across Africa for a number of reasons. First, Mugabe is one of the last, and certainly the most prominent, old-style African despots, liberation heroes who quickly turned on their own people once in power and presided over catastrophic corruption, incompetence and human rights abuses. His departure, even a mere dilution of his power, would herald the end of an unhappy chapter in Africa's modern history. Second, the success or failure of South Africa in resolving the crisis is seen as a crucial test of Africa's ability to manage...