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...study's findings may have particular relevance in the U.S., says Veleva, since the cost of IVF is roughly three to four times higher in America (sometimes more than $10,000 per cycle) than in Scandinavia and because many Americans pay for treatments out of pocket. Add to that the high cost and increased risks involved with multiple births: Veleva cites a 2000 study that found that, compared with singleton deliveries, the costs for twins, triplets and higher-order deliveries are approximately four, 11 and 18 times greater, respectively, mostly due to maternal and neonatal complications...
Being a spy may involve assumed identities and coded messages, but becoming a spy isn't exactly top-secret business. These days, in fact, all you have to do if you're interested in this particular career path is turn up your radio. The CIA is running ads on stations across the country for jobs in its clandestine service...
...months. A friend in Chicago sold her car and now relies on public transportation. Another has taken on freelance work for the weekends, even though she hasn't lost her job. In the interest of disclosure, we are all "of a certain age," and it is natural for a particular sort of gravity to kick in at about the 30-year mark. (A friend recently noted that turning 31 is like being in the ocean and no longer seeing the shore. Ah, to be young!) But this, I'm pretty sure, is different. This feels like more than...
...government of New South Wales has established a task force of 75 officers to track the bike gangs. It is also pondering the introduction of new laws to declare illegal membership in or association with particular clubs. "These groups are behaving like wild animals - uncivilized and with no regard for our community. If they behave like this, then we have no choice but to hunt them down and deal with them," an angry New South Wales police commissioner, Andrew Scipione, told reporters. Scipione has defended the police record in dealing with gangs. He says that in the past six months...
...Congress is discussing massive new aid - worth $1.5 billion a year for five years - for Pakistan. For U.S. officials - a group that provided a substantial part of the Times's sourcing for its story - to drop their long reticence on the subject of the ISI's duplicity at this particular juncture suggests, to some observers, an effort to put some pressure on Islamabad. "It seems like a prelude to a new strategy, which may include asking Pakistan to do something" in the province of Baluchistan, where the leadership of the Afghan Taliban is hiding in plain sight...