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...understand why no politician wants to get between a childless couple and the doctors who offer an answer to their prayers. This is the longing that burns and scars so deeply that we don't know how to talk about it and so privately that we don't want to try. But as medicine redraws the map of what's possible when it comes to making children, we all have an interest in asking how far we should be allowed...
...looser rules might increase their odds of success. Could patients create as many embryos as they like and pick the best, as long as they line up couples to adopt the rest--or sell the extras to offset the costs? This is no wild plan; in the U.K. researchers offer women reduced rates on fertility treatment if they agree to donate half their harvested eggs for research...
...companies offer a more stunning testimonial to the benefits of privatization--and fortuitous timing--than the formerly state-owned Brazilian mining firm Companhia Vale do Rio Doce. In the 55 years following its founding in 1942, Vale, as it is now known, grew into a comfortably large domestic player. Since being unshackled from Brazil's state bureaucracy in 1997, Vale has soared into the ranks of global-commodities powerhouses, with net income rising from $680 million in 2002 to $9.2 billion in the first nine months of 2007, placing it as one of the top-three diversified mining...
...know what Oxford’s going to be like, but I hear it’s got a lot of opportunities and a lot of interesting traditions and things to explore so I’ll leave it open.”But Blattler is still hesitant to offer any sage words for hopeful Rhodes Scholars.“I don’t think I quite have the platform to say anything like that yet,” she said with a smile.—Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
While Princeton’s proposed gap-year program plans to offer financial assistance and to set a target number of participants, Harvard does not have a similar program...