Word: paulson
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...Treasury not only wants to spend the TARP in ways that Paulson did not. It wants to create independent oversight to make sure that all decisions about the money are reviewed promptly. That puts yet another wheel on the wagon...
...system like the one in England, where reproductive medicine is overseen by a government agency that can revoke a doctor's license or close a clinic and sets age limits for fertility treatments. "Would we write laws limiting the size of someone's family to six?" asks Richard Paulson, director of the fertility program at the University of Southern California. "Would we write laws mandating selective reduction?" he asks, referring to the option of aborting some embryos if a high number of them successfully implant in the uterus...
...Richard Paulson, director of the fertility program at the University of Southern California, helped write the original professional recommendations regarding embryo transfer. Although he decries the birth of triplets, he's irritated at calls to legislate assisted reproduction. Doctors aren't the problem, he contends; laws are. Some European countries limit the number of embryos transferred, but that doesn't allow for physicians to take into account individual medical histories; generally, the older the patient, the less likely embryos will implant...
...California octuplets are only the second set to be born in U.S. history. "We're picking out this incredibly rare event, and all of a sudden, we want to pass laws," says Paulson. "Would we write laws limiting the size of someone's family to six? Would we write laws mandating selective reduction?" he asks, referring to the option of aborting some embryos if a high number successfully implant in the uterus. "Restricting reproductive rights would be a minefield...
...Many people are now remembering that in Washington, bigger is hardly ever better. We're glad that then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's original $700 billion bank bailout was split in two, so that having apparently squandered the first $350 billion, we have a chance of getting it right the second time...